I’m not gonna lie… the last couple of days has been… You know how when you ask someone how they are and they force a smile and say “I’m fine, no really”.. Forced smile and breathing in zen*
I knew going into it that it’s a special kind of hell trying to wrangle a finicky website at the start, but it’s also something that I seem to be doing over and over again.
Unfortunately, what doesn’t seem to be happening is actually learning and getting used to the interface and how everything works because it’s SO HARD every time. This time I tried WordPress’s own stuff, got frustrated. Installed Elementor that I have had success with before, it was pure unadulterated chaos and I still didn’t manage to fix the stuff I wanted to fix. So I tried Bricks which was fine until it….. WAS NOT.
I still have no idea why I couldn’t get the blog posts to work at all in any way because apparently I am the only person on the entirety of the internet that has this particular problems and I’m not code-savvy enough to just FIGURE IT OUT. This is obviously not a critique of Bricks itself, it’s just me being a noobz and I don’t have the patience to traverse the learning-curve to overcome being that kind of noob right now.
Not having functional blog posts was kind of counter-productive since my main point with a website is a silly blog for funsies. So I uninstalled all kinds of extras and is back on WordPress original stuffles again.
And after just clearing the space out and staring at things for a while, suddenly I just recognised things and actually managed to fix a few templates successfully and surprisingly it no longer felt like a rapidly approaching slab of asphalt and more like there may actually be a blog somewhere around here.
So, I’ve been on the tech-struggle plain of existence for a few days but now… it’s… something!
Sweeps arm displaying the with-silvertape-patched-together website behind me, with a strained smile. –Something falls to the ground with a clang–
Hehe. Nevermind that, it’s just the header that I haven’t gotten to stick yet. Welcome in, welcome in! The foundation is properly solid but the interior needs a little work here and there. Ahem. It’s a work in progress – with actual progress I may proudly say after getting absolutely nowhere for days.
So, let’s do this beeches!
–Slaps the side of the house and something falls over inside-
I’mma fix it, it’s fine. Yeah. Fine. Hehe.
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