“BLOCKS” is a friggin nightmare
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I’ve been using WordPress for over 15 years. Dozens of sites. And I remember when I could create nice looking websites with ease. But then everything shifted to “blocks” and for the life of me it’s like I’m a friggin toddler trying to build a house, blindfolded.
They say it’s “oh so much more flexible” but just trying to get images with captions to line up next to each other with Blocks is an hour of absolute frustration. Move one item and everything goes wherever the hell it wants to.
Then I find this “grid” thing that I thought would help solve this problem and it it makes no sense. Can I put the image with caption into the grid? Sure but no caption. Can I move an existing block into the Grid? No. Can I copy a block and paste it into the grid? no. Can I prebuild the grid and size it out on the page and then build within it? no. Once there’s an image in the grid, is there a + to add a column or row? No. Does wordpress want to make this easy? Absofrigginly no.
I’m able to figure out EXCEL, I can’t figure out “Grid”
It’s like you need to be Yoda and telepathically feel the ways of the force, or be Neo and see the lines of code running down the sides of the monitor, to know how any of this crap works because the HUI on these tools is absolute garbage – the exact reason I have not upgraded my business blog to Blocks because Blocks is shite.
Worst of all – spend an hour fighting with Blocks to design this:
(No, embeds wouldn’t work, I tried embedding form my WordPress media library and from my one drive, but nothing works … and why would they. par for the course)https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvdX80Iz3-T0g6RPBZhndnDjBlN5yQ?e=yvn7Vl
and instead, when I “view” the page, on the same browser, I see this:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvdX80Iz3-T0g6RQOjhtbix4otgHyg?e=0ddjmV
Which is absolute shite.
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This isn’t a tech support thing because WordPress is not going back and Blocks is it. But if someone can point me to a tutorial where I can be told in 1st grade English how the frack blocks works, or is supposed to work, I got to figure this out or I’m taking a dozen sites elsewhere. I can’t deal with site-building tools that are absolute shite.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello,
Maybe you should try to use the columns block.
For more advanced tutorials, watch the video below.
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@ieba Part of the issue is that your site and that page streamteknology.wordpress.com/recommended-gear is using the Canape theme, which is a very old Classic Theme and is constrained by the limitations set by the theme author. Unless you have custom CSS on your site (either with the Premium plan or the CSS Add-On), there’s not much you can do about it and even with those, it may be difficult to change.
If you want to get the full benefit of blocks, consider switching to a Site Editor/Block theme instead.
If all this is Greek to you, there are some explanations on the Theme’s support guide: https://wordpress.com/support/themes/
Hope that helps explain a bit.
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This is a failing of Automattic to have themes not compatible with blocks but which are forced to use blocks. Canape is _by_ Automattic, Automattic runs WordPress, Automattic developed blocks.
Automattic should update an Automattic theme to run on the Automattic developed WordPress. To leave it behind, and then not make it work right on the very site it’s designed to run? Huge Fail.
” is constrained by the limitations set by the theme author.” – The irony.
Moreover, it’s an additional failing of Automattic that there’s no way to search themes for “compatible” themes and weed out crap that will serve only to frustrate users.
“consider switching to a Site Editor/Block theme instead.”
Show me how an end user finds culls down the themes to “Block” themes. -
@ngfangkiang The first video was very helpful. Thank you.
The second video lost me when he was building a header block, and in that, crated a row block which he then modified with a stack block, and then modified the stack block with a column block, linked with a carousel block…. that’s some advanced blockieness there. Way above my pay grade.
Also, those videos demonstrate how poor the block interface is.
Some controls in a side bar on the left, some in a bar above the item, some appear in between the items themselves, some are on the side bar on the right, some are hidden behind the three dots … that might be in the left sidebar, or the top menu, or right sidebar… maybe even found only after you expand a particular item, that’s not in the default column, ….
That’s the epitome of poor interface design. Where controls are not centralized in one place. Yes, they may _also_ be accessible elsewhere, like using the / row command, but elsewise, it shows that WordPress has become a “ha ha, just try to find where we hid THIS control” which is not how it should be. </frustrated> -
Show me how an end user finds culls down the themes to “Block” themes.
https://wordpress.com/themes/all/free/filter/full-site-editing
The support site can be quite helpful:
For general knowledge https://wordpress.com/support/themes/
Switching from a Classic to a Block theme https://wordpress.com/support/migrate-from-a-classic-theme-to-a-block-theme/
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