Grumble grumble toil and trouble! with these free themes that is
OMG I am beginning to hate "free" and never thought I'd say that ..ever!! But I have to. These free themes are a massive bother and require iron patience or stellar experience and skill. So much goes wrong when I do fonts that just don't "take" and then I have to do them again and again and again. Then if I change the theme to something else and change back later SOOOO much gets screwed up I can scarcely describe it. Fonts are mixed together in the post and again the theme discourages easy application of different font choices.
Then it is almost impossible to center a title under a picture...there are three versions of our work..in the rough draft, then in the "reader mode" (how did THAT get into this process???), and finally in the published version. As often as not (maybe MORE often) the font will change and the size too and of course the placement of the caption so I always must do these about 15 times to get them close to right.
Some pictures just disappear from week to week and have to been installed again.
The "headings" function is almost impossible to use without gathering in huge blocks of text and screwing up the format with that too...no reason.....I guess you get what you pay for and if it's free then maybe I should expect stuff not to work.
Tonight I had to smooth out a thousand such glitches because I had changed my theme and too many problems were developing with that so I changed back to my other long-term favorite and the smoothing out for 40 posts and 8 pages took ALL NIGHT.... that is HOURS and HOURS!!! That's because every time I tried to fix something it mostly got more screwed up again....endlessly.
Now there is a cursed "reader's mode" that intervenes between the rough draft and the published copy and for the life of me it is USELESS but INFURIATING. It just slows things up and adds more colossal frustration to using these themes. Why did that happen and how can I contact WP to protest? It was so hard to do before that and now it's harder.
Where does this stuff get discussed in those smooth video-tutorials?
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I have created a premium theme. That is going to launch a few days from now. Care to wait for it for sometime. It allows you to add your own fonts from 600+ available options and other 100+ features.
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My free, "Twenty Fifteen" default theme for WordPress has worked great from day one. Matter of fact I'll be starting my second website and I'm going to use the same one. It's blog focused, made for clarity, and designed for mobile devices and various size screens. You might want to try it!
Ed
Ok, see ya in a bit!
Ed
think i might have it or tried it....will be back to tell u in a minute... theme 2015 ...
ummmm I tried it once and moved on.
Sir, Twenty Fifteen is made by the WordPress people themselves. It is meant to be like so. But just imagine, like you many many many other site users are using the same theme everyday. And it is the default activated theme when you install WordPress. Don't you want your site to look a little different ?
You have no idea, how many people ask me about my theme in my comments section of my site. I tell them what I told you. You can change colors, add widgets--it's really cool! The people I respond to are building websites and they want there's to look like mine! Seriously!
Ed
Sir, that can be true. But what about those who know. You can also understand, they will not come to your site and ask what theme are you using. Is not it? Besides it's common sense. When Mozilla started using yahoo search as default google search engine, the percentage of yahoo increased automatically...
what is it?