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Posted: Jul 18, 2022

I really want to like Blogely, but too buggy at the moment

Blogely is a nice idea - to have all the necessary tools in one place to help with writing blog posts.
As I'm starting to write a blog I thought this would be very useful.
There are some nice tools, like the article SEO checklist, but overall, I've been finding the system way to buggy to be helpful and in fact it can be a bit of a liability.

The owner, Gennady, seems to be generous with his time, but I can't help feeling they'd be better off keeping support documents up to date rather than fighting fires individually.

Also, the other person I was messaging at Blogely didn't seem to like problems or suggestions and tried to insist the problems were down to my "theme". I just use the Elementor Hello theme. I'm not sure that can be blamed for everything.

These are some of the problems with the Blogely system currently:

- At the moment, the advanced features, like "Summary" don't work (although they still appear in support documents)
- The support documents don't match up to what's going on in the app
- The workflow presented in the intro video, where you move across tabs, no longer corresponds to the app. Now tools are in different places.
- Getting set up wasn't the easiest, but Gennardy helped and we did get there
- The photo resize tool doesn't work because my photos were too big!
- There's no ability to choose the target size of the photo being resized
- It's not clear in the app which options relate to the published article vs. how they appear internally within Blogely
- Deleting photos from the Blogely library doesn't always work.
- Even when I've deleted a "featured image" it's still posting back to my WP site
- If I make changes on WP, Blogely doesn't always pick them up when I try and import. Blogely doesn't seem to import featured images.
etc.

I'm going to wait a little bit before I refund. I really want Blogely to work well and reliably but at the moment, it's not very useable for me.

Founder Team
GmmB

GmmB

May 9, 2024

I have tried to reproduce the problems cited here. I can only confirm some of them, and we fixed them within 48 hours.
Some of your complaints are due to confusion when using the app.
Admittedly, we need to provide more explanation and set some limits on image size. For example, we are really not able to handle 4K+ resolution images.

Of course, your photos are way too big at a size of 9 MB. That's a size you do not want to deal with in WordPress.
We gave you an explanation and offered to use the compression tool to reduce the image size.
Obviously, that was not good enough.
We are very sorry about that...

See my screenshot of our conversation and your feedback.
https://www.screencast.com/t/i8bdMUH7Xx

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