Why is WordPress so difficult to use?
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I have heard time and again that it is wise to move my blog from Blogger to WordPress. However, after many days and weeks of trying to switch over, I have gone back to the easy-to-use and friendly Blogger. I cannot tell you how frustrated blogging on WordPress has been. It doesn’t show up properly on my site or when I share if to facebook. Believe me, I went step by step through all the forums and steps offered here. Terribly frustrated with WordPress and super happy to be back on Blogger.
JenniferThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I tagged this thread for Staff to take note of your feedback. I sympathize with you because some of my clients had the exact same run around in circles experience that you report and they chose to head for Blogger too. There I can have them up and running in 4 hours. Here it takes many paid hours of my support to teach my other clients how to use this software which has become so complex that it’s mind boggling for beginners to try and master it.
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Thank you for your quick response and understanding. On one hand I am glad I’m not the only one to have issues, but on the other, I am highly frustrated that it is this difficult. And for what?
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Hi @encouragementmama – I’m really sorry you’re having a frustrating experience! I’ve certainly had my fair share of frustrating experiences when trying to use various software.
Can you let me know a bit more specifically what you’re having trouble with? I’m happy to help clarify/solve any issue you’re having.
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Hard to explain except that when I create a post on Blogger, it is quick and easy. I can share it right away to Facebook and other social media and it appears properly.
With WordPress, the post is difficult to create, and difficult to share. The post never shows up right on Facebook, and half of the time it doesn’t show up fully on my site.
Lack of font choices and sizes…impossible to get a simple photo to show up in the side bar…
I am normally a very positive person, so I truly tried my best to learn WordPress and switch from Blogger.
After many, many hours of wasted time, I had to go back. I have been successfully blogging nearly everyday.
I basically create the blog on Blogger and copy and paste it to WordPress just to get it on my site. However, it’s usually a big headache even to do that.
Thanks for you response,
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Forget anything you knew about Blogger; it will actively impair your ease of use here.
There is no www in your URL, for instance.
Use an Image widget to put an image in the sidebar.
Give up on the idea of controlling fonts etc unless you want to buy the $99 upgrade bundle and make the changes in CSS code.
WordPress.com is a turnkey blogging solution that works well and is incredibly secure. If you want to futz with design and customization, it’s not the place.
If your blog here is just a duplicate of a post on Blogger, staff have asked that one site be set to Private or the blog here will be liable to suspension. And if you’re just using Blogger to get the post done, you’re not going to learn WordPress.com that way.
Start here: http://learn.wordpress.com
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Thank you for providing some details. As Raincoaster mentioned, learn.wordpress.com is an excellent starting point. It will cover how to publish posts and automatically also push them to all of your social networks.
I wanted to address a few particular points:
impossible to get a simple photo to show up in the side bar
Have you tried using the Image Widget mentioned here?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/image-widget/
The post never shows up right on Facebook, and half of the time it doesn’t show up fully on my site.
If you’ll point me to an example post on your site, I’m happy to take a look at this!
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Thank you Raincoaster and Jeremy. I appreciate your input. I have tried the image widget numerous times. With other templates it worked, but with this one it doesn’t.
I’ve decided for now to take my blog off of my site and stick with Blogger for the sake of sanity.
Believe me, Raincoaster, I tried to forget Blogger altogether and start from scratch. Unfortunately it took all the fun completely out of blogging and that is my passion.
I will use the web site for other things, and hopefully figure WordPress out.
Jeremy, your patience has been great. I will certainly call on you if I need support down the road.
God bless you both,
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I’m laughing a bit in spite of myself I am having some exasperating moments with it. bare with my lack of comprehension and I’ll try to be concise.
I’m not saying anything is innately broken but so if I’m am wrong or just dumb I apologize.
1. My brain wants to be able to dump photos on smugmug, sift through them leisurely, and put them in stacks. Why must I upload to specific gallery?
what makes this harder is when you simple want to reconfigure the composition of the different stacks you neatly puzzled over.
Somethings are in galleries that are… er… on pages… some things are on pages but not in galleries and but they’re not in galleries because they’re simply on a page. Don’t even get me started on folders.
Not trying to make this arduous but I’m also integrated with wordpress and the logistics are not interchangeable. Maybe it’s just my logic that isn’t interchange. Perhaps it’s “container confusion…”
We start with a home page. though technically, isn’t it a home “folder”? Why can’t I have a page exist outside of a folder? unless it’s outside of the home page? where is my elusive virtual space? I just wanna set something down for a second, to free up a hand.
Things like not being able to hide a gallery from view goes a bit beyond annoyance and running into smugmugs condescending header/footer ” branding “options” is just… rude.
Google manages this sort of stuff in a series of automated after thoughts but smug can’t render a psd for viewing?
moving on.. let’s go back to galleries lol! I think they’re between 3-5 settings that “enable” galleries but not what exactly they do.
I want to be be able to enter a gallery that nests under a single displayed image.Hmm.. I’m starting to think that the “organize” tab is not only named inappropriately, but is actually the. real antichrist. If smug could be a bit more agile with its image handling I could work on my common sense problem and we’d do good together.
A final yet equally non concise thought: Ecommerce is easy trending. towards easier. Platforms like wordpress were engineered with user friendlieness in mind and and getting fairly diverse in their capabilites..
So the discouraging thought is, if I’m already managing WP comfortably, smug seems like it could be more hassle then it’s worth. Monetizing my pictures is almost irrelevant compared to having a nice place to display them. -
Whut? I think I’m going to go have a beer before I try to tackle an answer to that post.
Meanwhile, what WordPress.com website are you referring to? Make sure to put in the http:// part because that makes it clickable.
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I like the name “Timethief.” While he or she has been extremely helpful over the past few months of my trying to figure out WHAT THE HELL is going on with this ridiculously user-hostile software, the pseudonym is actually a good name for WordPress itself. I am checking out, folks. A note to the UI/UX designers: Anybody who has permanent links at the bottom of the page that include “Matt Mullenweg,” “One at a Time,” “Storytelling Slowed Down. . .” blah blah blah, is clearly lost in the weeds.
Beginning bloggers need technical help that is crisp and to the effing point. I just activated a theme and got a completely blank page with the error message “We can’t seem to find what you’re looking for.” Where to start. A. I wasn’t looking for anything. B. If the site has an embedded function “activate,” why can’t it perform that function? C.) Keeping in mind the VIRTUAL CERTAINTY that there may be bumps in the Activation Road, why is the user dumped in WordPress’s equivalent of Siberia with no links, no support, no nothing?
Bye bye, amigos. Best of luck to my fellow sufferers.
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Hi Everyone,
Since @encouragementmama’s original issue has been resolved, I’ll be closing this thread.
@asaxton01 – Could you please open a new thread for your issue being sure to list the blog address you’re having trouble with?
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