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In WordPress jargon, a page is a normal, static web page. It is used for pages like “About Us” or “Contact”.

A post is more like a newspaper article. It has a date stamp and an author. It also often enables reader comments. A post is a single article in a blog. It is for social interaction. Here is some info: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-the-difference-between-posts-vs-pages-in-wordpress/.

Posts are displayed in list form in categories, and are organized by categories and tags. “My Solutions” could be your top-level category. Each of the sub-solutions, like “Writing Solutions” could be a sub-category containing relevant posts. You can then add more granular sorting by using tags. Here is some info about categories and tags: https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/, http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/categories-vs-tags-seo-best-practices-which-one-is-better/.

WordPress makes it easy for you to write new posts and have website visitors comment on them. What is more difficult is allowing others to publish their own posts. That is not a standard part of WordPress. It can take a lot of experimentation and customization to get it to work the way you want, and may require extensive moderation to maintain high-quality content. Searching “wordpress user generated content” finds some good info: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/wordpress-post-frontend-plugins/.

If you have access to FTP or the database, there are options for changing passwords described here https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Resetting_Your_Password.

At the bottom, under “Additional Reference” there is a link to http://kuttler.eu/code/wordpress-password-reset/ or http://kuttler.eu/code/wordpress-emergency-admin/ that creates a new admin user.

Your gallery thumbnails are square probably because your settings tell them to be. Go to Settings > Media > Thumbnail size > and deselect “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)”. If this is checked, thumbnails will be square. If it is not checked, the pixel dimensions will be considered a maximum size and the thumbnails will retain original proportions.

You might need to use the Regenerate Thumbnails (https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/) plugin after changing your media settings.

For two columns, see http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Gallery_Shortcode. Your shortcode would be something like this: [gallery columns="2" ids="729,732,731,720"].

Install the Contact Form 7 plugin: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/contact-form-7/.

Create a new form, and in the “Message body:” field, put [_url].

Add the Contact Form 7 shortcode to a text widget. Now when someone submits the form, the page URL will be printed in the email message.

Here’s the reference: http://contactform7.com/special-mail-tags/. See “This tag will be replaced by the URL of the contact form.”

So that theme changes are not over-written when updating a theme, a child theme is recommended. See https://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes.

Create a child theme, then in the in style.css add

.home .page_wrap {
background-color: #eeeeee;
}

The .home is a class from the body tag and assigns this change only to the home page.

The .page_wrap is the class the Duena theme uses around the content.

(To find these CSS classes, view your website in a browser, right click the area you want to change, select “Inspect Element”.)

The #eeeeee is the new background color in hexadecimal. Change it to the color you want. (Search the internet for “hexadecimal color picker”.)