Need lots of implementations

  • First of all, sorry for my low skills with the English language; anyway I hope you can undestand my point of view.
    The big idea of the theme is very good; WordPress needed this feature of creating/editing layouts and templates that other editors like Beaver, Elementor and others have for so long.
    However, in my humble opinion, this theme looks like a theme created by softwer delevopers for software developers and not for webdesigners (or whatever other word used for people who just want to create a website). Thing are notintuitive, paths to access stuff are not intuitive, also block editor has big lacks of configurations and this theme is based on it.
    Would be very good to create a different tool for developing websites, but also would be great base this tool on others existing tools that has done a very and reliable job long before.
    For example:
    i – I would like to configure a max width for all blocks and for the entire website in a single configuration. How can I do that without editing a part or layout and without forcing it with blocks configuration?;
    ii – A very useful configuration is not accessible anymore in a easy and quick way: additional CSS. I saw in a topic that there’s two different way to access it: first one is like “click here, than click there, go to that region, click over some stuff, than click there”. Too many clicks going to something that previous versions of WordPress main themes you could go through a single click. Other way is entering a url on browser, like domain/customize.php. Let’s be honest: none of them is usefull and makes things harder specially for beginners.
    ii – Its very common to use some snippets into functions.php. I could not find a way to do that by WordPress Dashboard; probably I would have to use a plugin for that.
    All those stuff is provided for most themes in a very easy way. I would probably increase this list with much more items, but since those problems already made me avoid this theme, and I really don’t like to spend hours and hours trying to figure out how to do such things, I’m still using other free themes (like Kadence and Blocksy) and addons (like Spectra, Kadence Blocks or Qubely) to provide my sites stuff that I am not able to do with the combination of Twenty Twenty-Two and Gutenberg (block editor still have a big lack of configurations). I probably will do that in my spare time and try to make things work, but I see myself tired when I think to do that.
    Thanks in advance.

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  • As a person, who “just want to create a website”, I would like to note that your examples are rather professional.

    But still.

    I would like to configure a max width for all blocks

    It seems to me that all blocks are spread on the screen dynamically under the frames (like max 650px, 100px in TT2 theme) set by a theme.

    ii – A very useful configuration is not accessible anymore in a easy and quick way: additional CSS

    not sure what you mean, but for me it is still accesible from Dashboard-Appearance-Customize. I bet there’s a plugin to bring it as it was. But… Most of those, who just want to create a website just do not care about that, because common CSS of a theme is just OK.

    ii – Its very common to use some snippets into functions.php

    Are you sure that person who just want to create a website even know what snippet is?

    Thread Starter ivangneiding

    (@ivangneiding)

    Hi @goutm, thanks for your reply.
    I may not have expressed myself very well, probably because I’m not very good at the English language.

    It seems to me that all blocks are spread on the screen dynamically under the frames (like max 650px, 100px in TT2 theme) set by a theme.

    What I meant is that I could not find a way to configure those values for max width of content for the entire website, like I do in this this screenshot using Astra. For my tests with plugins and snippets I use Astra because of the simplicity of configuration and because I can configure all I need in a matter of a few clicks, and can do that without the need to dig in theme configurations (anyway, for real sites I prefer using Kadence for general uses and Blocksy for blogs, they are also easy to use, very friendly and with lots of customisations).
    In this example os screenshot above (with Astra) I’m using 1200px for content and with full-width for columns itself. Well, all columns respect that max-width of content if I set “inherit default layout” on the columns blocks configuration. If I try to do that with the TT2 theme, the content will be show in a 650px, no mater if I try to setup this up on the theme layout. Regarding this, in this screenshot no matter if I change values of layout, I can’t make content to be shown in 1200px. What I mean is: I need to do a single configuration of 1200px for content in the theme and activate “inherit default layout” in the columns blocks inside the pages to get the value I configured in theme.
    I tried modifying those values but no success. Also, I’m curious of what values are used when I activate “inherit default layout” to the main group, and where does it come from (regarding the page layout configurations – screenshot above)?

    not sure what you mean, but for me it is still accessible from Dashboard-Appearance-Customize. I bet there’s a plugin to bring it as it was. But… Most of those, who just want to create a website just do not care about that, because common CSS of a theme is just OK.

    I’m using a fresh install. No plugins installed and everything is up to date. I really only can access customisations by editing site’s url: in my example is localhost/wordpress1/customize.php
    The problem with CSS is that sometimes block editor don’t have enough options to do everything I need, so I need to use it. Also, sometimes I use plugins that makes me hide some element or change colors, maybe make a custom panel elements for WooCommerce, anyway; and I use theme’s additional CSS. I don’t know if it’s the best practice, but all additional CSS I put into theme and always worked for me.

    Are you sure that person who just want to create a website even know what snippet is?

    Yes, I’m sure. I have just a little bit (really little) knowledge of PHP for example, but I certainly can’t write a code for WordPress. And not only me but also lots of people that know absolutely nothing of programming can use snippets pre built on the site; there is lots of useful snippets to use for WooCommerce for example. All the people need is (beside trusting the source of code, of corse) to copy the code and paste it into functions.php. But the easiest way is doing it trough the WP Dashboard; it’s a pain to do that using FTP for example. Unfortunately seems that it’s not possible anymore. Check this out.

    Regards.

    Hi @ivangneiding

    Add customize / Additional CSS

    
@media (min-width: 1200px){
main.wp-block-group,
    main.wp-block-query {
        max-width: 1200px;
        margin: auto;
    }
}

    content width and wide width (.alignwide) customization adjusts the following in the theme.json file

    
{
    "version": 1,
    "settings": {
        "layout": {
            "contentSize": "650px",
            "wideSize": "1000px"
        }
	}
}

    For example, if you set both 650px and 1000px to 100%, it will look like a fluid layout.

    I don’t use twenty twenty two every day, so there may be some shortcomings, but I hope it helps your difficulties.

    Thank you.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 4 months ago by nobita.
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