This blog feature amusing and heartwarming stories about our late Leonberger dog Bronco, as well as other Leonbergers. It also has a lot of information about the Leonberger breed, the history, care, training, Leonberger organizations, etc. I also wrote a Leonberger book, which I am featuring in the sidebar.
New Blog Launch
Today I finally got around to launching my new blog. I call it super facts and the website name is https://superfactful.com.
I added five posts, which are pretty much exactly the five super-fact related posts I posted here on my Leonberger blog previously. So, you may recognize them. In the continuation it will be stuff you haven’t seen before. However, now I need to find out if my blog works. Do I get notifications about comments and likes? Can you subscribe? Can you navigate it? All opinions and bug reports are welcome. I invite you all to check it out and if you subscribe, I would be very happy. I can add that it is easy to toggle between the two blogs, just look at the right-hand sidebar.
Smash your old beliefs with new surprising facts, super facts. Expand your mind and teach me some unexpected truths. Shutterstock ID: 1685660680 by MattL_Images
My name is Thomas Wikman. I am a software/robotics engineer with a background in physics. I am currently retired. I took early retirement. I am a dog lover, and especially a Leonberger lover, a home brewer, craft beer enthusiast, I’m learning French, and I am an avid reader. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I am originally from Sweden. I am married to Claudia, and we have three children. I have two blogs. The first feature the crazy adventures of our Leonberger Le Bronco von der Löwenhöhle as well as information on Leonbergers. The second blog, superfactful, feature information and facts I think are very interesting. With this blog I would like to create a list of facts that are accepted as true among the experts of the field and yet disputed amongst the public or highly surprising. These facts are special and in lieu of a better word I call them super-facts.
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Wow! You will be busy! The site works a treat and you’re covering a great range of fascinating and engaging topics! I’ve just subscribed! Enjoy your new website!
Thank you Annika. I really appreciate your kindness. I found a little problem already. All comments has to be approved and I need to find a way to turn that off.
I think that is in settings and then discussion. However, even then think you will need to approve everyone the first time and after that, if selected, known users and their comments will be automatically listed. Good luck sorting out those initial niggles!
You are right Annika. I found it under settings / discussion an option called “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” It was yes by default and I did not see it. I turned it off right now. Thank you so much.
It looks great, Thomas! I already subscribed and am exploring the posts published so far! It’s not only very informative but also mind-opening and thought-proving. I like that! *Light and blessings to you, and success for your new site*
Thank you Pooja. Yes it seems to be working and I learned a couple of things regarding the twenty sixteen theme that I am using. The photos sometimes are confined within the text flow and sometimes they stretch out the left edge. This was intentionally done so that you could show off your large images to the fullest. However, with some images being confined within the text column and some not it often comes out looking ugly, and they now consider this a bug rather than a feature. If there was an easy way of controlling it would be a good feature but like it is now, it is nuissance. But what I learned is that you can control this by resizing the image. The image will expand left if it is wider than 840px and not a tall image, but otherwise not. The resizing has to be done for each picture individually, but that is fine. I have a way of controlling now and I will go back and fix this on my Leonberger blog as well as my Superfactful blog.
That’s interesting to know. I think a lot of themes have these features turned bugs because I had a similar issue with my prior theme as well. Since I’ve changed it to a new theme it’s not an issue anymore.
Thanks so much. I use the Bitácora theme and have made some custom changes because I didn’t love how it looks originally. Overall, it’s a very nice theme although a little less mobile friendly but that’s easily fixable.
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Excited! I’ll check it out.
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Thank you so much Sara. And I saw you are my first subscriber. Thank you for that too.
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You did it! Congratulations, Thomas! I enjoyed your previous super facts posts. I subscribed and commented:)
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I saw. Thank you so much Patricia. It is very kind and helpful.
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Wow! You will be busy! The site works a treat and you’re covering a great range of fascinating and engaging topics! I’ve just subscribed! Enjoy your new website!
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Thank you Annika. I really appreciate your kindness. I found a little problem already. All comments has to be approved and I need to find a way to turn that off.
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I think that is in settings and then discussion. However, even then think you will need to approve everyone the first time and after that, if selected, known users and their comments will be automatically listed. Good luck sorting out those initial niggles!
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You are right Annika. I found it under settings / discussion an option called “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” It was yes by default and I did not see it. I turned it off right now. Thank you so much.
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It looks great, Thomas! I already subscribed and am exploring the posts published so far! It’s not only very informative but also mind-opening and thought-proving. I like that! *Light and blessings to you, and success for your new site*
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Thank you so much Susana. I really appreciate your kindness and support. I wish you great success as well.
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Congratulations!!!! So happy for you, dear friend!! Thanks for the link. I look forward to checking it out. 🩷
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Thank you so much Laura. Yes to check it out you can click on the picture of the disintegrating brain.
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Congratulations, dear Thomas 🌷💙
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Thank you so much Luisa
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You’re most welcome 🌿
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I am happy for you and it’s exciting to start something new. I subscribed and will look forward to learning new things here. 🙂
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I really appreciate that Barbara. Thank you so much for doing that.
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Off to check it out.
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Thank you so much Jacqui
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Fantastic, Thomas. I’ve subscribed and look forward to your posts. 🌞
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I appreciate that. Thank you so much for doing that Gwen.
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Congratulations on the new website! Looking forward for many more blog posts 🙂
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Thank you so much ezpzrun
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Looking great! I just dropped over to the new blog, subscribed and liked a post.
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That is great David. Thank you so much for your support. I really appreciate it.
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Wow, congratulations! I’m heading over right now!
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Thank you so much Damyanti. I checked my superfactful blog earlier today and I really appreciate your kind support.
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Congratulations! That’s amazing and I just subscribed. Everything is working well for me on the blog.
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Thank you so much Pooja. I really appreciate your help and support. A couple of people found issues earlier that was able to take care of.
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You’re very welcome. Glad you were able to fix those. The blog looks like it’s working well now.
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Thank you Pooja. Yes it seems to be working and I learned a couple of things regarding the twenty sixteen theme that I am using. The photos sometimes are confined within the text flow and sometimes they stretch out the left edge. This was intentionally done so that you could show off your large images to the fullest. However, with some images being confined within the text column and some not it often comes out looking ugly, and they now consider this a bug rather than a feature. If there was an easy way of controlling it would be a good feature but like it is now, it is nuissance. But what I learned is that you can control this by resizing the image. The image will expand left if it is wider than 840px and not a tall image, but otherwise not. The resizing has to be done for each picture individually, but that is fine. I have a way of controlling now and I will go back and fix this on my Leonberger blog as well as my Superfactful blog.
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That’s interesting to know. I think a lot of themes have these features turned bugs because I had a similar issue with my prior theme as well. Since I’ve changed it to a new theme it’s not an issue anymore.
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By the way. You have a pretty good looking theme. I am curious which one it is.
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Thanks so much. I use the Bitácora theme and have made some custom changes because I didn’t love how it looks originally. Overall, it’s a very nice theme although a little less mobile friendly but that’s easily fixable.
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Thank you so much for the info Pooja. I have to admit the Bitácora theme is new to me. I have to look into that.
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Congrats! I was able to like and subscribe. 😊
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That is great. Thank you so much helping me out with testing and your support.
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Congratulations!
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Thank you so much Dawn
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Congrats on officially getting the new blog off the ground Thomas!
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Thank you so much Leighton
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congrats! heading over there right now
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Thank you so much da-AL
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Congratulations, Thomas! I have just now subscribed. I enjoyed your previous posts. I’ll visit the new site again. Thank you!
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Thank you so much Kaushal for doing that. I really appreciate it.
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