where is the freedom in WP ?

  • Resolved Tesla619

    (@tesla619)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    So i use to build websites with Dreamweaver and got out of it for several years and now i want a WP site only for the shopping cart integration BUT my frustration started with putting up a maintenance page as i work in the background with the main page.

    The maintenance page designer theme has a very simple way of changing logos, adding text like “coming soon” and email subscription….but i cant change the text size as easily, its a 20font size in Aerial, no where in there editing does it have a way to change the text.

    So for what i am gathering is WP themes and plugins; you are stuck with what they offer you in there themes and cant go around it, unlike Dreamweaver where i’m free to do allot.

    I heard i can use Dreamweaver to edit the site and upload (what a production to start that).

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  • You can do pretty much anything with the design that you want to. You just have to queue your CSS styles in the right order, but you’d need to do that in any other CMS anyway.

    If you’re uisng plugins, you can normally over-ride any CSS styling in your themes stylesheet.

    If you’re using a theme you can (and should!!!) set up a child theme where you can set up your own styles.

    And if all that fails, you can add in either a final CSS file, or a blcok of CSS style code into the header area in your site.

    All of those together lets you over-ride pretty much any style that’s applied to your site.

    Remember also that there can be many different places that a theme or plugin can offer customisation options depending on who’s coded it and how they’ve gone about it. Themes in the repository here are getting better thanks to the Customizer requirements that have been added, but any outside themes are free to add in options anywhere that they want to, so things can be very much hidden unless you know where to look.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    The freedom is you do what you want with the software.

    You can do practically anything with WordPress (from a technically point of view anyway). The only limitation is imagination/ability.

    The Codex is your bible ??

    Thread Starter Tesla619

    (@tesla619)

    If you’re using a theme you can (and should!!!) set up a child theme where you can set up your own styles.

    How would i go about this or is this similar to working offline and then posting ?

    It’s nothing at all like online/offline. ?? What a child theme does is leave you to have your chosen parent theme, and make modifications as you see fit. The biggest rason for this is that when a parent theme gets updates, any changes are wiped out, so you need to ensure that they sare safe – which is where the child theme comes in.

    Creating a child theme is actually versy simple. Just follow this guide: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

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