Themes confusing. I need functional guidance and appearance is secondary
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Wow…. wow. I thought I was computer literate… not so much I guess.
I just built my first blog, and it took me two hours of looking through themes to see which one “might” work for me. It was strictly trial and error as the descriptions were NOT helpful. What looked like it might work, did not. I think I know what I want/need, but to wade through the myraid of themes, widgets, menus, categories, was mind boggling. And BTW, I am a college graduate!Is there one-on-one help available? Seems not, I was repeatedly steered to the Help pages, but none was forthcoming.
SpadGuy
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Have your tried using the filters where you can get the themes page to show only those with certain features. For example, only those with custom headers or only those with three columns. Otherwise try posting a bit more about what you’re looking for here and forum visitors might be able to recommend themes you could try.
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Just a note “trial & error” is a bit of the standard try a Theme thing – yes the preview does not always look the same – However – the new preview function works nice if you have a bit of content. Most everyone looks at a few Themes before they find what looks “like what I want.”
As @halluke says – ask a specific question – the Widgets are quite similar from one Theme to the next – BUT – each Theme designer chooses a different set of default or starting points – the Widgets can be changed on all Themes.
PS – white letters on gray background I find very hard to read.
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There is one on one help available, from people like me and thesacredpath, but it is not free. What’s your budget?
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spadguy.wordpress.com is no longer available.
The authors have deleted this blog.
Looks like they gave up in less than a day.
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If they think things are confusing here, wait till they start trying to dig through tens of thousands of .ORG themes.
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Are we done beating this dead thread yet? lol :D
I see a remarkable change is bloggers over the course of the last 4 years. Four years ago new bloggers were more adventurous and willing to try to learn things on their own. We Volnteers taught them how to fish. These days some want us to fish for them, fillet the fish, cook it and all the trimmings for them, and serve it to them on a crystal platter. Worse still is when we get the help em now types who then claim they are being paid to manage wordpress.com free blogs for others! What the frack is that all about — suckerfish be born every second, never mind every minute. -
Absolutely dead-on. My next course is on how to choose a competent social media consultant, not just some tard who knows how to set up a Twitter account.
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I wouldn’t be surprised to hear there are quite an number of frauds our there. I have met a few who think that 20 years experience in business and a couple of months blogging has made them “experts” – HA! I have forgotten more than they will ever learn. SIGH I want to enroll in all your courses but traveling is so difficult for me.
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It’s not just fraudsters; a larger problem is the half-competent people who charge serious dollars but who don’t know that they don’t know what they’re talking about. I listened to a presenter recently talk about how putting links on Twitter is good for SEO. Apparently the presenter didn’t know they’re nofollow links. It was embarrassing on behalf of the industry.
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