@RJIJDNA Quick! Go to "Settings" then under "Tagging Ability" click to "Allow others to tag photos and videos" -- looks like it's off now.

@ergodicwalk Pssst. While the identicon on your blog is very fitting to your topic... http://boffosocko.com/2016/10/26/give-your-web-presence-a-more-personal-identity-photos-on-wordpress-with-gravatar/ ;)

To Live and Write in LA - Share Your Blog: Los Angeles Bloggers (Los Angeles, CA) | Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Share-Your-Blog-Los-Angeles-Bloggers/messages/boards/thread/50202990/#129703401

Leo, I find it tough to keep up with even one or two sites, so I'm impressed that you're wrangling 3 (or maybe even more)...

http://toliveandwriteinla.com/
I love the magazine style set up you've got here and with a humongous amount of well-written and well thought out content. My one note here is that stylistically, the theme is probably getting a bit long in the tooth. As you'd commented to me, something that's responsive would certainly be cool.

Some small things you might consider:
On the next/last links under articles, articles with longer titles aren't properly buffered which causes the text from one to overwrite the other.
Notify me of comments/new posts renders oddly with some quirky overlap that could be tweaked.

http://leosopicki.com/
Personally I was never a fan of the "masonry" movement (I always felt it was too "busy", though here it does help to highlight a larger number of articles to help get the first time visitor into a topic they might enjoy.

On individual articles, I like the way you intersperse the visuals to change up the flow. However your line lengths are a bit too long to read as comfortably. If you added some more white space on the sides of your text blocks, things would be much more readable. (Try to shoot for 58-70 characters per line for ease of reading -- I'm guessing you're running almost as high as 125 in full-width which makes it harder to move one's eyes from one line to the next. Notice it's easier to read, especially for longer periods of time, with the left/right aligned photos because they shorten the line lengths.)

You really have a great voice in most of your posts that draw the reader into the experiences you're sharing. The captions on the photos really add to the experience too. You've obviously been doing this for a while and are good at what you're doing (which is also seen in some of the great feedback you've given to others here on meetup... thanks by the way.)

Your "Writer" menu link just goes to the homepage, which I understand to some extent as everything on the site is writer-centric, but I might have expected something a bit narrower and focused on screenwriting posts perhaps.

I would more likely have suspected to find a Twitter account, but was a bit surprised to see you pull out Pinterest in the left rail. Further I was shocked that there was some interesting stuff to be seen on Pinterest! I'm sure you can't do too much about the Pinterest widget, but the content shown there was so small and the vertical slider was a bit weird, you might see if you can either dig into it and fix it or perhaps find a better one.

Though speaking of Twitter accounts, I know you've got one, but one's really got to dig for it. Perhaps you could be leveraging the social media portion of things to help your work find more eyeballs?

Overall:
I know that changing themes can be difficult with lots of potential pitfalls and work (especially with a large portfolio), but as a writer, you might consider some themes with more white space and really fantastic readable typography to make your words a bit more front and center (without minimizing your great use and placement of photography). Even if you don't completely change themes, you might consider just punching up the typography and adding some extra whitespace to make things more readable.

Given that you're a photographer, you might also consider finding something that allows for adding some larger photos to better feature your work there. (I wish I knew of something to recommend that does a great job of melding both pictures and words, they're hard to come by.) Often I was disappointed that some of the photos were relatively so small and wished I could have seen full res versions.

@t Depending on where you're at @kongaloosh had an interesting post on photos recently: http://kongaloosh.com/e/2016/8/2/on-posting-images

@Mikirk1 That should totally be a thing: #stickfilter, I'm going to start using it on more photos! @instagram, can you add this?

Sounds like a reasonable solution. I'd imagine that in most cases (to be safe) that if there's not a featured image, then posts to twitter would generally be just the text update as that's how most people typically use twitter.

Is it looking for photo related microformats with regard to identifying/pulling photos? I actually thought it was interesting/relatively nice that it automatically pulled the three photos and laid them out that way, but in that case I'd have done higher res photos for better clarity. The "indieweb mini-logo" is a really small icon way down in the footer of my page and I was most shocked that it popped up on the post.

I typically have been using SNAP for POSSE, but as I've been watching your work recently, I felt compelled to test out Bridgy Publish to give you some feedback about UX/UI as well as bang on things for bugs in general.

UX: Bridgy to Twitter makes some unfortunate default photo choices · Issue #10 · dshanske/bridgy-publish https://github.com/dshanske/bridgy-publish/issues/10

Surely I should have put in a featured image, but otherwise it's grabbing multiple low res photos on the same page (in widgets, footer, or from gravatar author block) which don't correspond well with the content :

Maybe default to none if not a featured image or appearing within the_content()?

Like you, I usually don't worry too much about SEO either, particularly for my personal site.

The IndieWeb community has recently been moving domains from IndieWebCamp.com to IndieWeb.org, so there have been some relatively big changes there which have thrown some functionality off. In particular, one used to be able to jump into the chat directly from the web-based chat logs, but that has been turned off (temporarily, I hope). If you don't want to set up an IRC client [details and suggestions are given at https://indieweb.org/IRC], you can also use the more friendly Slack channel as well since the IRC chat is bridged to Slack. Just click on the link on the IRC page to sign up. (I've never been a big IRC fan either, and the fewer chat clients, text messengers, etc. I can have, all the better!)

If you've managed to get WordPress installed, then you've already done the lion's share of the hard work! Most of the rest of "IndieWeb-ification" is done with simple plugins and minimal amounts of configuration. There shouldn't be anything too much more difficult (unless you want to get your hands dirty and do some hardcore coding.)

My main www.boffosocko.com site is a WordPress install, which I usually use for longer form (more interesting??) posts. stream.boffosocko.com is more quick hit content: status updates, checkins, and some photos. I also find it's a bit easier to use on my cell phone than WordPress is. It's built on the Known platform which was built from the ground up in part to support IndieWeb protocols.

If you'd like to join a small group of us in Pasadena on Wednesday night, I'm walking a few new people through some IndieWeb stuff: https://indieweb.org/events/2016-07-27-homebrew-website-club (Facebook copy at https://www.facebook.com/events/1176904038997597/). We can help you walk through the process on your site if you'd like.

I hope to have monthly meetings through the end of the year in the LA area, and there's a bigger IndieWebCamp in Santa Monica in November (https://indieweb.org/2016/LA)

Thanks @snarfed, brilliant find as I wouldn't have thought of it. I took out the first one which I'd had hiding in a widget and moved into my header for clarity a few months back.

I vaguely recall putting the others in many months ago, but honestly I can't remember for the life of me where they came from (probably IWC) or which portion of my WordPress is actually generating them now. I also don't seem to recall where I was hiding my code that injects my rel="icon" photos (primarily for shortcut buttons on iOS and Android), though I'm guessing they're in the same place. Any suggestions on where a clever guy who's too sleep deprived to find them right now may have hidden them? None of the IndieWeb plugin sub-plugins would be generating them quietly could they?!

The quirky part is that all three lines have been in there a while and (to my knowledge) haven't been causing problems until about a week ago.

The 6 or so outstanding webmentions went right through without any issue, so I'll mark this as closed for now unless problems continue.