Why Can't I Edit My Homepage?

  • Long story short: I started playing with wordpress so I could help a friend with her site, she was recommended to someone who (supposedly) does this for a living, she used him for a few months, he screwed her over, she is back to wanting personal trustworthy help at the expense of knowledge about using wordpress. I am technically articulate and able, this is just new ground to me. And it is really getting under my skin.

    So, I search for anything named wordpress on my laptop and delete them and reinstall wordpress again. That tells me I’m using the latest version and not the one from a few months ago. This brings me to my first question. Is wordpress software? Like, obviously it isn’t hardware, but is it an application ported to both OS X and Windows? Is it a web based application that runs on every major browser? I ask because I’m kinda confused about what I’m accomplishing when I download/install it.

    Second question. I can’t seem to edit the homepage anymore. It gives me this loading screen forever. I see the edit bars on the left but thats it. Nothing. Not a data connection issue. I know that for sure. Any ideas on what the heck the problem is?!?!

    Theme is storefront, if that matters.

    Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    WordPress is software. It is ran by a server-side language called PHP. A WordPress website is not normally found on someone’s computer, but on a server that is controlled by hosting providers. The server is typically on Linux.

    The “WordPress” software that you download from www.ads-software.com is mainly just an administrative editor for your website; the content-management-system. However, the software is also packaged with a few default ‘themes’ so that you can preview your website.
    Themes are responsible for what you see when you visit a website.
    WordPress core is responsible for what you see when you visit a website with “wp-admin” on the end of the URL.

    Second question.

    Try deactivating all of your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible. If none are, keep all plugins deactivated and switch to the Twenty Fifteen/ Fourteen theme to see whether it could an issue with your theme.

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