Nigel

Thanks, James. I’ve downloaded and set up the ‘Globetrotter’ theme and have modified the default wording to reflect my new site and have deleted a load of blocks that were not required. So for the Globetrotter theme what is the best forum to get support as I’m stuck already – can’t figure out how to add new pages or insert multiple images that cross-fade on the home page.

https://ncphotography-7cve2r5dqv.live-website.com

Thanks, James. So, no matter what, you definitely have to use a theme first, then build on that?

If this is the case I should choose a theme that is as close to this – equiduo.com as possible as that’s the exact same style of site I want to create.

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James, I don’t want to use a theme. I posted a while back and you yourself said I could do everything using WordPress’s built in Blocks editor, no need for themes, which is why I’m posting here for help? The link you gave above is to ‘Extendable’ which sounds like a template plugin or something, also, there is nowhere to post on the link you gave, it’s not a help forum, just a link with info about Extendable.

Due to word limit on posts my original post got cut off, so here is the rest:

Don’t worry about the other pages just yet, I just want to get this home page set up with fading images and links and the text in the middle but in the WordPress back end I just can’t figure it out at all, way out of my depth.

iu34, that doesn’t help me. I’m not looking for advice on design etc, I’m looking for technical help as to how to go about doing what I have outlined in my first post in the back end of WordPress as I can’t figure out how to set up images on the home page that fil cross fade with the links at the top. That’s what I want to know.

James, any idea why I can’t post here anymore, tried posting different questions on different forums here, but Admin blocks them all. Am I banned or something? Don’t get it as I’m just posting questions about WordPress, WTF???

In the meantime, I use Ionos for hosing my site, can you recommend two or three good hosing companies that makes WordPress easy, hosting companies that don’t charge too much monthly for a basic hosting package that has everything required to host a WP site based on Blocks?

OMG. Just watching YouTube tutorials on WP and Blocks is confusing. But I’ll keep plodding along, especially if I keep getting agencies saying things like ‘Our development packages start at ￡5,000’, yeah right!

That makes sense, James.

Thanks again.

I’m struggling to find a WP developer to get me started, trying Fiverr at the moment.

Ok, so I’m definitely leaning towards using ‘Blocks’ in WP, but somebody mentioned Elementor to me, so I Googled that and folk say Elementor is no good and ‘Bricks’ (not Blocks) is better, but Bricks is some paid subscription thing. Confused, what’s the difference between Blocks in WP and Elementor and Bricks?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but is Blocks just something that is free and part of WP while Bricks is something you have to pay for, but is like Blocks, only easier to use?

I want my site to be as future proof as possible with no complicated stuff bolted on and in a way that it’s easy for me to update and modify myself in future.

Thanks, James. I’ve started watching the tutorial videos you linked to, quite a lot to get through. I already have the site up and running, which somebody did for me for a fee, but I need to learn this stuff myself so I can do it myself so the SQL and everything is in place and my site working.

All I need to do basically is create a new landing/home page so viewers don’t immediately land on my ‘portfolio’ page. I want a home page that has 9 images that fade in/out with menus at the top and then I need to create a new ‘portfolio’ page link at the top and on that page there will be different categories for stuff like ‘business photography’, ‘food photography’, ‘portraiture’, ‘corporate head shots’ etc. But figuring out how to change my site to have a new home/landing page and creating a new page will be tricky for me.

I’m not even sure if my existing site uses a ‘block’ theme, which you suggest as being the way to go and according to one of the videos you link to suggests that block themes are the future, not sure mine is a block theme to be honest.

That’s a great help, James. Will look over your links.

Do you think I can get away with no javascript and no CSS for my site? Just WordPress and nothing else?

Also, I’m currently using an SQL database via my Ionos hosting, is this still required?