Learning The Hard Way

Are you banging your head against the wall? Can't figure something out?

I am not one to ask for help UNTIL I have banged my head against the wall and have tried every way I can think of to figure it out on my own. I don't like to bother people with little things, that I should be able to figure out. .

When you banging your head, if you take a step back ~~ often time there is a door or a window.

~ Training

~ Classes

~ Search Bar

There is almost ALWAYS an answer if you stop banging your head and digging a hole, and look around.

I sometimes have tunnel vision and think I have to do each step exactly as it is laid out, which in theory is true.

BUT there is a big BUT, if you just aren't getting it, and you are stuck, feeling discouraged and really annoyed .... step away from the computer, resist the urge to throw it out the window... and go look for Training, a class, or use the search bar. More times than not, someone else has had the same problem, has been stuck at the same point in the Training, etc.

Look at it in a different way, try changing things up, and maybe put it aside for a while if it is a post that just won't come together. If it's Training, and you are Premium or Premium Plus, try looking under the CLASSES tab and find Training.

I have recently done this, I was stuck on the Block Editor, I hated it and we had some battles. I couldn't figure out how to even make spaces between my paragraphs, or anything else for that matter.

I found an old training by Jay's ( magistudio), it was years old, but it was still good, and I learned a few tricks from there that got me UNSTUCK with the stupid block editor. Funny how it is stupid when we can't figure out how to use it. Well anyway, once I got unstuck there, I was chatting on Live Chat ( where else would have I been, I don't know) but anyway, someone recommended GeneratePress documents. Between the Training ( thanks Jay) and the suggestion ( thanks to you too), I took the time to bang it out and got unstuck. Now that I am not stuck, it's not stupid anymore, I actually like it.

SiteContent also gave me some battles, I figured out

1. once you publish you can't edit it there anymore, you have to go to the WordPress back office.

2. The Templates are awesome, and if you haven't taken the time yet to check them out I recommend them.

3. The 1,000,000 images are very useful, for those of you that have time and creativity it may be easier to go take your own picture or go make it with Cavana or whatever, but for those like me who lack both the time and creativity to do it, these work out well.

4. It checks for spelling, grammar, etc, which any of you have seen me in chat, I need a lot of help with. My fingers have a mind of their own, and almost never sync with my brain.

5. It has other cool checkers as well.

I need lots of help so I also got Grammarly, which helps clean up my writing and catch the fact that I spell Affiliate wrong all the time. and I go with the Affilaite :/ thanks to Diane Scorpio for that one, I managed to spell it wrong throughout the whole post.

Got off track but, there was a point in there somewhere. When you are stuck don't keep banging your head against the wall, look for the door or the window. Looking things up for yourself is part of the learning process I think. Sure you can ask questions and get answers, but I for one like to go find something like GeneratePress docs and go there and see for myself, I get a lot more out of it that way, and it makes more sense when I see the process,

Take advantage of the CLASSES tab, when you are stuck watching a video related to what you are stuck on can help you figure out where that door/ window is.

Site Content has some great things, and some frustrating things, but all in all it does make writing content faster and more efficient ( Kyle has a great video on it)

The Search Bar is a great resource a lot of people don't know about or forget about.

When you ask a question in chat and someone puts up a link, they are getting it from the search bar. It's a great resource and one everyone can use.

The classes tab does have about 5 training for Starters that you can take advantage of as well.

I know we always say follow the Training and that holds true - but when you are seriously stuck, you can do related Training, I don't suggest you get way off track and start looking ahead of where you are. That is one of the things I think gets people tripped up the most, either flying through the Training or just jumping ahead. That is a pretty surefire way of getting lost and confused.

Anyway, I don't blog much on here. I don't want to just throw something up there that doesn't really have anything to do with anything.

So this is a lesson learned and some suggestions.

I have been with WA for 9 years except for being MIA here and there for health issues and surgeries. I have always found a way to keep up with my subscription and although things have gotten really tight I always have WA as a priority. Cutting back on things, sacrificing here and there, and just finding a way is something that I will continue to do.

I believe in WA, the process, and the Training, and I know that although I am not where I could be 9 years in, I am where I should be.

That's it, that's my blog. It could be months or years before I write another one. I won't waste your time or mine just throwing things up there to throw them up.

Thanks for reading, if you made it all the way through.

I look forward to any comments that say more than "Nice Post"

and I am always ready for any additional information or helpful hints to go with mine.

Until, next time,

Kerri (DIGGER 12 )