Why must you be a programmer in order to use WordPress???

  • Resolved Headmeister

    (@headmeister)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I have used Blogger and have written custom Blogger templates for years. Because I want to monetize my new blog, I have chosen to start with WordPress to avoid having to move from Blogger at some point. This is now my 4th time installing WordPress and not being able to use it at all. When I ask for help, I’m sent links to pages that tell me to edit files and write code I’m unfamiliar with. When I ask for help, I’m told to pay even more money for someone to walk me through just a basic installation. When I ask for help, many times, no one has answers for me other than “you’re not doing it correctly”.

    I am very frustrated that I’ve spent so much money on a product that I’m completely unable to use. I’m at a point now where after installing WordPress, the link I’m sent to access ny dashboard doesn’t work at all (https://stayathomeslacker.com/wp-admin). I get a message saying “the requested URL cannot be found or is unavailable”. How is this possible?? This is the link sent to me by WordPress. I’m at a complete loss and I feel like I’ve just thrown money away time and time again. If there is anyone out here who knows where I can go for help without having to A) learn how to code, and B) pay another few hundred dollars to just get to the admin dashboard, I would sincerely appreciate it.

    Sorry if this comes off as bitchy – I’m just at a complete loss. Thanks to anyone who can assist.

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  • Have you considered using WordPress.com ?? That is a good place to start when you have no knowledge of coding. They install and setup WordPress (yes, even at your domain name), you pick a theme and a few plugins and write.

    The same can be done here, but when you run into issues here, some advanced topics are likely going to need to be resolved and this is the place for support with .org sites.

    Your site is down at the moment. You need to contact your host on this and be able to work with them on the issue. Sorry to say that if you cannot, you WILL need to hire an expert.

    Headmeister, you don’t seem to have basic DNS working for https://stayathomeslacker.com/, forget about wordpress for the moment.

    Just put a basic index.htm in your web root and get that working first, then worry about wordpress later.

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