I’m trying to wrap my head around what exactly is going on, so this will probably be back and forth dialogue for a bit…
In my filters for categories, I have:
JuTaRo’s profile • Letterboxd which takes you to my reviews. This works and MB picks it up, but the posts are filed under “Photos” and not “Movies” which is what I have:
The movie posters from letterboxd are then automatically uploaded to my Uploads section, and I see them among my photos, which I do not want.
I already unchecked the box “Filter new uploaded photos into category: Photos” on the categories section.
This set up used to work for me in the past. I believe that after I updated something, it broke somehow. What do I need to look into to fix this so my movies are automatically in the movies category and not photos, without the photos in the Upload section?
I think what is happening here is you have your Letterboxd RSS feed set in Micro.blog → Sources to add the movie posts as blog posts. Micro.blog “helpfully” also copies any photos (movie posters) in the posts to your blog too. Then the filter sees the “photo” and assigns the category.
However, if you disabled the filter for photos and only use the emoji, that should not be happening any more.
If you don’t want the movie posters copied but do want the posts copied to your blog, we would need to add a new option to not copy them as photos.
I think another improvement to filters would be to make one exclusive, in other words if the Letterboxd / Movies filter matched, no other filters would be applied.
So what you’re saying is that movie posters are uploaded to my uploads section if I set my Letterboxd’s feed on Micro.blog as a post, which doesn’t mean it will be on my photo page - that last part depends on my filter.
And these pictures of these older movies that I reviewed are not in my uploads section.
So… something changed at some point. The way it used to work is how I’d prefer it to work now (if possible) - I understand that these movies being captured in my photo page is another issue on top of this one probably.
Yes-- Manton changed this to not hotlink to the source (because the source can be removed, and hotlinking I think is still broadly frowned upon) so that posting to your blog means pulling in all the content necessary to construct a copy of that post.
Well if that’s the case, I don’t mind keeping them in my uploads as long as they are not in the photo section, which is a filter problem then. I’ll try to fix.
I understand the movie images are uploaded the the upload section, which make sense if I forward a feed from letterboxd; what I don’t understand is why they are in the photos section on my blog. I did check and Terminator (in the image) is not the photos category when I check the post itself for categories - it’s only marked for movies, which is where I want it.
But then again, when you go to my photos section, you see movie posters:
Are you filtering your photos page by category? By default, this is not filtered by category but instead shows any jpg/jpeg uploaded to Micro.blog and contained in a post on your site.
Adding to the confusing is that I have a Photos page that is not “the” photo page that comes wiht MB, I just created one for my photos…
I think I kind of get at what you’re talking about. I have Photos | The Art Of Not Asking Why, which is the category for photos, and in that I see only the photos I want - but that’s not how I connect to the photo page and not how it looked like in the past.
In the past, my Photos page on my blog (📷 Photos | The Art Of Not Asking Why) did not show every single image I uploaded. This includes screenshots for some posts. Now, after I added the plug in (I think it’s the plug in) I see everthing in there. I started this issue from movie posters - well, I also see my screenshots as well.
These screenshots and movies are not filtered as in the photos catgeory, and in the past that’s how I kept them out of the photos page. Now it seems something has reset. What would that be?
You were right. it was the plug in. Each one does different things - right now I have a mason one enabled, the montsh are gone, and so are the movie posters and the screenshots.
I liked the months, but the grid with the random photos is interesting too… anyway, that’s a different topic. The point is, it was the plug in.
Juggling multiple plug-ins that do similar things is getting confusing. I think we need to come up with a better way of handling this, so that you could have one plug-in that controls which images are included, and another plug-in that controls the layout.
@manton adding to the confusion is that some things, for example my archive, are set up by a custom page in Tiny Theme (it adds a custom HTML code and bypasses the default archive page) - so when I use the plugin you just made, it goes back to the original settings and ignore that page.
It’s not exactly the same, but it’s tied into it. And I get that it’s hard to explain to folks that might not mess with these things in the first place, I get confused myself and I do mess with it
emoji, that should not be happening any more.
