Bloggily challenged

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  cedriccicada · Member · Dec 8, 2008 at 1:17 am

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  Greetings!

  I am new to the world of blogging. Somebody on a digital photography forum I’m on mentioned this site, so I created a blog, hoping it would be a bit more flexible than BlogSpot. But if it is, I don’t see where. Here’s a couple of replies I got to a question I posted at that group:

  you don’t edit wp-config–you edit the pages in the themes editor. In
  general you’d leave the other default files alone. You don’t have to
  be an expert–go look in the Design Tab in the admin, and then go to
  the theme editor. There should be the names of all the page components
  listed on the right. Pick the one that’s appropriate (probably the
  post) and do a find for the dimensions of the images. You should be
  able to find it quite readily and change it to whatever you want.

  Make sure you backup yourr blog first tho.

  dawn

  2008/12/7 J Bryan Kramer <(email visible only to moderators and staff)>:
  > Well if you use the wordpress.com site to host your Blog then the
  > intimidation factor goes down considerably Rob. I’m not even sure if you
  > would have to edit that wp-config file then, and even so you just
  > personalize 4 lines in that file to make it work. They have something like
  > 3500 themes available on their site and hundreds of plugins.

  I don’t see a Design Tab. I don’t see a Theme Editor. I didn’t see 3500 themes; I only saw maybe a hundred. I don’t know where to look for plugins.

  This blog would primarily be for displaying photographs, although other things could be added.

  Here’s what I think I would like:

  1. A two-column layout
  2. Column widths based on percent of screen size, not absolute number of pixels.
  3. Picture width based on percent of screen size

  Can someone explain where the Design Tab is?

  I had hoped to find a site that can be completely configured by dragging and resizing blocks with a mouse, rather than picking from a set of predefined templates or developing cascading style sheets. Is that possible here?

  Thank you very much.

  Rob Richardson

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 8, 2008 at 2:01 am

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  I think this sticky post from the top of the forum will help you understand the differences. Here on the wordpress.COM free hosting service we are limited in what we can do and what changes we can make. We do not have access to the underlying theme or wordpress files. With a self-hosted blog using the software downloaded from wordpress.ORG, you have a lot of freedom and can modify pretty much anything you want. With that comes the ability to mess up a lot of stuff as well. WordPress and the theme software is not written in HTML, but in PHP script and it is far more difficult.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1