John James Jacoby

I would recommend not using the WYSIWYG editor, and wrapping your paragraphs with your own custom classed paragraph tags.

Or you could also insert a <br /> rather than start a new paragraph, that might also be a more exact way of presenting your content?

Given what the WYSIWYG editor does, I’m surprised it doesn’t have an “insert line break” button. Hmm…

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_the_category

I think I may have misunderstood your question, but I also think this might be simpler than my brain is allowing it to be right now…

Let me revisit this tomorrow and report back with what I come up with… ??

I think most of your questions can be answered by checking out this page…

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories

The wp_list_categories is a very robust function capable of excluding specific categories or starting with a specific category and displaying all of the children of it…

Check it out…

rqfavela, could you be less specific for us please?

I like it.

On your work page, I would make the uppercase type a link to your work also, as I instinctively tried to click it…

Also, I like the flourishes on the top of the content of that page, but they don’t show up anywhere else… I would either integrate them more, left justify the title, and/or totally remove them and replace them with something else…

Otherwise I find it very pleasing and elegant and your intro made me click through the rest of your website.

Keep up the good work!

Tsk tsk…

Visually appealing in a way that makes me want to click through it more just to see what is coming next…

Errors aside, I find it inviting and intuitive…

It’s a great start regardless of errors and bugs, those are kinks that can be worked out with time and patience and tens of hours of cross browser testing…

I really dig the header image…

Otherwise it’s insane…

Meh… Seems a new take on a primitive layout…

I like the refreshing purple color, but that’s where I lost interest…

Good luck!

How about this…

My first impression of your website is that I don’t exactly know what I’m doing there or what to do next…

Sure, there are 6 blocks in front of me, but none of them naturally gravitate my attention, nor do they really set a good expectation on what is coming next and why it warrants my attention…

I like the idea, I like the colors and I like the fact that it’s a break away from the typical layout monotony, but in the end it leaves me wishing I knew why I was supposed to keep reading…

Good direction and good luck!

I like all of the individual elements of your design, but I feel that they do not all flow together. I like the logo, the background, the simple navigation, and even the sidebar header part looks nice enough…

My personal opinion is that all these elements look like they belong to other templates, visually anyhow…

My feedback, would be to break away from the container box and ditch the border… Open the website up and show off that dark and sketchy background image more… I think a font like Impact with some weathered type of overtones might create a dismal type of mood for your headers and toolbar navigation, using images and such…

Also, the black and orange color combination, I feel, has been used and abused… There are at least 16 million other colors to choose from, and I say explore the palette and see what fits your mood from one day to the next…

Good luck and good start!

Wow, it’s pretty amazing…

My personal opinion, which I wouldn’t give unless you were asking, is that it’s a bit 1995 portaly-looking compared to the current web trends, but of course with the amount of content you have, there isn’t much else to do with it.

I think the template is obviously a beautiful illustration, and you can tell the efforts that were put into it to make it work correctly were not in vain.

Good job to everyone!

I think that dragging and dropping is a fad, that WordPress used when it was popular, and is moving away from now that it is not.

This is like when Flash first came out, EVERYONE had a flash website with an intro screen. The fact is that the common user doesn’t ever think of clicking on something on a website and dragging it without being instructed to do so. The internet is so 2 dimensional that the idea of interfacing with it on an interactive touch-and-feel level is still a very immature one; one that in my old-school opinion I personally feel is unnecessary since the same can be accomplished with the mouse totally unplugged. ??

I wish that the widgets were smart or conditional; so that I could set equations and circumstances that must be met to show or not show specific widgets on certain pages. This would work similar to how the original sidebar.php file works, but within the admin panel rather than have me modify the file directly.

The idea behind a WordPress widget is to categorize commonly used functions of a website (calendar, search, links, pages, etc…) and provide a unified toolset packaged within WordPress to offer these functionalities without touching the code, which I think is great, but it starts to cross the line of dumbing it down just a tad too much…

What makes WordPress great is the ease at which the code can be modified to fit individual needs, and the widgets lose that ability if they are hard-coded into the interface itself.

/end opinion

…and back on topic; don’t expect for dragging and dropping to come back anytime soon. It was very much a sign of the times, using technology for the wrong purpose, similar to much of how AJAX is still used everywhere. ??

Reupload all files and try again?

It still exists in the widget page to arrange the order of the widgets, just not for passing them from active to inactive.

I suspect it was to simplify the administration panel to allow for new users to quickly adjust and understand how to use it. I know even as an old school programmer that at first glance I didn’t quite understand how all of what WordPress could do actually fit together.

Keeping a simple stock template also allows for others to modify the panels to their own liking later on…