Why is WordPress still the most frustrating software to use?

  • So what a “wonderful” experience being on WordPress has been (site still not ready) – I have dreamweaver skills and have built websites but when it comes to WordPress, this software is in a class of it’s own for sheer user unfriendlyness and inconsistencies when it comes to designing a platform that “regular folk” can use….

    Deemed “state of the art” it seems it’s intentions is not to reach the average blogger but rather to allow itself to be presented in a structure that only serious coders will understand. It’s reach I believe could be ten times as much and more if it was prepared to make changes to it’s set up and dashboard. We are not all coders.

    It amazes me even after 2 years (when I first attempted to blog here and gave up) that NOTHING has changed regarding the platforms overly complex approach to the most simple and rudimentary tasks that other s/ware companies have resolved for their users.

    It is still as user unfriendly and non intuitive as it was 2 years ago when I first encountered it and went to Blogger. I don’t think I’ve seen as much frustration and negative comments both on the forums and from google searches associated with regard to configuring WordPress than I have for any other companies product. Period. It seems no one at WordPress listens.

    Tasks that should be SIMPLE like creating a page become tedious – time wasted not on writing but trying to find out why: e.g. all the other pages one has created added a link in the menu bar and yet a new page then suddenly doesn’t automatically create the link…. All of this time and energy fixing problems that just shouldn’t exist. It becomes more like an exercise in mind crushing tedium, unanswered forums posts and google searches to fix than the joy of writing.

    Please sort it out. We’re not coders, WE ARE WRITERS!

    Thank you for listening.

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  • AHHHHH “When “we” built a site for a client” No no no…Im building the site. YOU already had expertise…I had less than none on WP to start. All I wanted to do was make a site with three or 4 static pages with pics and info on them. Yesterday after 4 months I finally got there. Now I can figure out how to add stuff like google maps and contact forms etc back into the pages where I need them. Right now Im trying to figure out how to get a different header image for each page. Its 2:04 pm now and I started at 8:am. and am still clicking here and there and previewing and clicking here and there and looking to see a if this is possible in WP and b if theres a tutorial. Thank god WP is easy. If it was hard Id be another 4 months trying to figure this out as well.

    Right now Im trying to figure out how to get a different header image for each page.

    OK – that’s definitely “advanced”.

    Heres another “easy” thing. I got it to go once on my home page…duplicating it is a search in progress. In the text box on the edit page what my goal is,is to have a black background with white text. So the page will be all black including the background for the text and the text is white. Piece of cake. “Logically” in the text editing functions I just click on the background colour tab ( LOL )and then format the text white…and voilla!!!!! done in under a minute. Ahhhhh but this is WordPress…..doing it that way would save time…so….”a hunting we will go….a hunting we will go….” Can you see now why the title for this thread is so approiate for newbies to WP?????

    What you are describing is not “WordPress for newbies” but more advanced theme editing and development.

    Now you can see why 4 months have now come and gone. What I just described about making the background of the text box black and the text white is simple straight forward stuff in other “diffucult” apps. I want to learn WP, and months from now when I eventually get it to do 4 static pages with black background and white text and some pics Ill get to the point of uploading it and go thru the quagmire of learning the interface of my host site. This is all easy stuff when you already know how, for a noob, it is a deep dark pit of a time sucking vortex. The easiest part of WP is how easy it is to spend hours, days, weeks, and months of time getting nowhere quick, and since “you” have expertise you cant understand why the title of this thread is so apprpriate.

    The title of this thread is not appropriate in your case. You need to start reading up on Theme Development – which is most definitely not a newbie issue.

    Im just working with a theme in WP. As I said, on my title page I managed “somehow” to have white text on a black background. Duplicating that on the other three pages is a function Im currently searching for. I did it once on the home page…..all i need is the time to find out how to duplicate it again. Its easy….I guess. The title of this thread is appropriate….frustrating…is the operative word.

    This is not a beginner’s question. You would be better off posting in the Themes & Template forum.

    To change two words (from “Leave a reply” to “Send a comment”) took me hours of research and frustration. The solution was to simply copy and paste some special code into an obscure location…what could possibly go wrong there? But how could a programmer have possibly foreseen the need for such an elaborate customization like editing words?

    WP costs a fortune in time and frustration. I would gladly avoid this enormous waste if I had the money.

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