Is WordPress Poetry or A Conspiracy?
Is WordPress Poetry or A Conspiracy? I'm going to get straight to this story hierarchy. Over the past few months, I've been learning how to build a website. Not just any kind of site, but the kind that is created from scratch, one that stands out in the light, away from the batch.
What do I mean by building from scratch? I'm talking about making a website by handwriting out the codes and watching it all unfold. I don't see too many of those.
Now you may ask, why would anyone want to create a website by handwriting complicated codes, isn't that undesirable? After all, there are site builder tools on the Internet to make the job amicable, miscible and less miserable. Making it more comprehensible.
Learning how to build your own website from scratch is about having total control over your designing plans, they go hand in hand. Sure, a website building tool can produce a professional and modern looking website, like seconds2work.com. I admit it was fun. But, what have I really learned? How to drag and drop elements in a containment.
I'm the type of person that wants to know how and why, when and where something works. I'm not looking to just drop a few lines of text or images onto a page and call it a masterpiece, I need to know I put effort into all that I create. That I can fix it when it breaks, I need to know and understand the full recipe.
I like being able to look at the project and know I created it the exact way I or my clients wanted it to display. Over the last two weeks that has not been my case. I have run into road blocks, one after another day after day. These road blocks are leaving me feeling incomplete and frustrated, in a nasty kind of way.
I feel incomplete because I have two projects that I've been hand coding, and now sit idle on my local laptop waiting for uploading. I've spent countless hours trying to get them to the next step; launched, live production, viewable to you eyes. To this, I wept.
The frustration part I feel is because, in order for me to get my HTML coded websites on to WordPress system, I must create a theme. This theme thing is a brain drain. Furthermore, some of the resources I come across over the Internet I've found to be useless, and a waste of valuable time, yours and mine.
I keep telling myself, there's got to be a better way to get these sites to display. I'm learning PHP, Javascript, jQuery, and many other programming languages that come (array).
I'm overly frustrated with the WordPress template hierarchy, I'm calling it a conspiracy designed to cause despair; That's hopelessness. I hope I didn't lose you there.
I think it's time I show WordPress that I have not been intimidated by its discrimination. Nor will I be trapped in this loop, I'm only a couple of files from completion, that's due to my determination. Now you got the scoop.
WordPress is Poetry or is WordPress A Conspiracy?
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It's commendable that you are writing code. But remember we don't want to keep reinventing the wheel.
It's funny that you say that, reinventing the wheel. I read a book back in the 80's with a similar name. It's setting takes place back when Jesus walked on Earth, but it has nothing to do with Jesus. It was all about marketing.
No brother, I'm not trying to re-invent this thing. I'm only trying to capitalize on it.
I used to write code back in the 90's, so I thought I would build a website and it would be easy. Man, was I wrong!
But for me to get this close and let it go unfinished, that would be the old me. I'm going to see this project through to completion. I'm only a few files away, it's only a matter of time til I figure out how to manipulate them.
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Honestly Lenard,
Wordpress has been a heaven sent for most business owners. It's because you don't have to dive into deep code to create a website that looks great that makes it wonderful.
And most bloggers don't want to be coders. They want to focus on creating great content that leads to visitors and conversions.
So it all depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to make money via blogging then spending countless hours messing around with coding is a waste of time.
If you're trying to become a programmer or designer then it makes sense to learn by fire. I see too many bloggers that should be focused on content messing around with technical aspects that won't help them make more money or drive traffic. It's because of personal preferences of trying to make a page look perfect in their mind. I discuss this here: Are you distracted by the wrong things? So it all depends on what you're trying to do.
It's funny that you say that, brother. Because when I start WA two years ago. all I wanted to do was blog. As time passed, I discovered my niche; Creation. Developing and showing other how to do it.
I learned how to master HTML, I'm getting much better with CSS, Taking a guess at Javascript and PHP.
Over the last few weeks, I've been trying to get a grip on WordPress Theme creation. I need to know WP Theme to complete the package.
And I think most people that come here are here to learn how to blog and not code. So your needs are different than most and thus wordpress is actually a wonderful tool especially when you consider all the ways it can be scaled up and controlled with themes and plugins.
That said, your coding frustration is normal for anyone learning a new skill or language. It's not really the platform's fault. It's just getting accustomed to its rules and working with it. My buddy has gone through the same thing as well and now he loves and appreciates wordpress. So it's just a learning curve.
That said for 90% of the people that are here and why they're here wordpress is a savior compared to the alternative of coding from scratch. I remember those days and I'm so happy that CMS like wordpress exists now. I understand how to code but I want as little to do with it as possible since my goal is to blog, educate my audience and make money. So it fits my needs. But I'm sure you'll learn to appreciate it more as you learn how to code themes, plugins etc,
There is a reason why so many websites online are built on this platform. It works well!
I admit, I titled this blog to catch people attention. I love using WordPress. That's why I want to finish this project up, So I can show other how its done.
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Poetry...
And yes, themes are the real pain together with plugins...
Bad code conflicting as the say...
Thank you, I had fun writing this one. This my favorite part:
Learning how to build your own website from scratch is about having total control over your designing plans, they go hand in hand. Sure, a website building tool can produce a professional and modern looking website, like seconds2work.com. I admit it was fun. But, what have I really learned? How to drag and drop elements in a containment.
Well done!