The purpose of this site is to help me learn how to use WordPress better. I’ve been maintaining for a couple of years a site that was originally put together by someone else. Nearly every time I interact with it, I come away having had to learn something new and also with the feeling that I hate WordPress. One major difficulty I have is figuring out where in the stack a particular bit of content or formatting comes from – I’m looking at blaming Templates for some of this difficulty.
For instance, I had a sample page that I wanted to turn into an ‘about’ page for the blog. But there is stuff in the footer that is not based on the footer I edited for the Twenty Twenty-five template that I’m naively thinking should control all of the pages being displayed.
I’m also not entirely happy with how featured or key images are shown on pages. On the robotics website, I used some bits of custom CSS to suppress them where they were not wanted but I would more satisfied if I could find where in the templates, etc, the unwanted display is coming from in the first place.
Perhaps because I went with the Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance, I have some content already present that I have not yet been able to bring under control.
I’m working with a little book WordPress:in easy steps; web development for beginners by Darryl Bartlett. Reading the book sequentially, I’m hoping that I can more systematically learn the WordPress philosophy or style.
I wanted to self-host WordPress. I used the Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance once before to throw up an extremely simple site for my campaign in town elections, last year for the positions of Supervisor of the Checklist and Library Trustee, this year just for Library Trustee.