Getting close to giving up
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I plumped for the life version. I’m beginning to regret it. I’m new to WP and I think I’m starting to understand, that it has an infinite number of variations in themes and templates, but it’s a bad idea to try and alter any of them to suit your own style. ‘Arcane’ doesn’t even get close. It’s like a sky-scraper on shaky foundations. It’s fine, as long as you don’t try adding an extension, or a flag-pole at the top.
I’ve just spent the last hour, trying to create a new paragraph in a text block. Unlike every word processor of any sort in the last 30 years, hitting the Return key, doesn’t create a new paragraph. Instead it creates a new Block.
Why would I care? Well, because I want to add a background colour to my text block.
Why is this a problem? Well, because if my text has 3 paragraphs, then once published, it will be 3 separate coloured blocks, with the background colour in-between. A mess.
Hitting Return, creates a new Block. Google reveals people using a formatting menu item for adding a Line-Break. Unfortunately, that menu item isn’t present on my page. People suggest hitting Enter… but Macs haven’t had an Enter key for about 15 years. Fn-Return might do it? No… that just creates a new Block.
It’s like the page Title. There’s one on every page and they seem to mess with responsive resizing. Apparently they’re important for SEO, but whatever.. I’ll delete it anyway. You can’t! And you can’t move your header/slider above it either. It’s always at the top. I tried making a completely new page. Nope. WP has its own ideas.
I thought my site would take 2 or 3 days to setup. I’ve been spending days on end, for 2 weeks, just hunting around in the endless menus, trying to find whichever carefully hidden item, will be the one that will do whatever it is I’m trying to do… and then of course, 2 days later, I find that it’s broken something else.
So, as I said. I think the secret for WP, is probably to find a theme you like and use it as is. Just add your content. Am I wrong?
Apologies for being grumpy.
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Hello,
i use divi, because with that builder i created my webpage. Try the demo => https://www.elegantthemesdemo.com/
divi has many possibilities, already alone the own modules (text module, video module, blog module etc.) bring for the beginner without programming knowledge very many setting options. You can play around in Divi for a long time and always find new and impressive features. You can show/hide divi modules (areas on a page) for tablet/mobile/pc only. You can pin menus, etc. You can edit something global for all pages or only for the actual page.
https://ibb.co/RvykTkR (own presets)
I use nextgen-gallery, not the ultimate, but is better than all picture-gallerys into the page-builders. Accordingly, some “plugins” are needed. Do not overdo it with the number of plugins, they slow down the page.
In the Divi Code-module on a page, for example, you can display a nextgen-gallery then according to your wishes. Titles, Description and so on i use yoast premium.
screenshots only in german:
https://ibb.co/3FqmqgL (you can edit the title, the permalink ++++)
https://ibb.co/NnmYD0q (yoast seo options)
https://ibb.co/hRSCGLM (Divis visual builder)
https://ibb.co/w4FHz1c (Many options to set color font ++++)If you do not known the nextgen code, you can create a page with wordpress-block editor and switch to the code, copy and paste to the visual page-builder code-module.
https://ibb.co/SwM8sW2 (Example to insert a nextgen-gallery)
If you know which pagebuilder you want to use switch to the forum, many questions are there welcome and divi has a fb-site with a lot of tutorials. And the best, if you have a problem, divi has a reroll-option to a earlier version and for every module you can do a custom-css, if you need them.
I have forgotten, divi have many themes that you can install and than redesign.
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