Trial and Error
What’s different this week? Other than the blog feed page at https://www.ronaldseam.com/web-development, not much else is different on my page this week. I took a detour this past week in my attempt to better understand WordPress beyond the Gutenberg block-editor level by spending a couple days following along a 47 minute video on youtube.
I spent this past weekend watching this video (a lot of pause and rewind involved as I took notes and typed code as I followed along). I understood maybe 40% at most of what was going on. It did help clarify some things that I didn’t understand and was a step in the right direction in trying to understand the “coding-side” of WordPress; it just wasn’t the giant leap that I had hoped. It also didn’t really yield anything that materialized on my website.
What did you learn that’s worth sharing? I didn’t really learn anything worth sharing, but if there’s one thing I learned for myself is that this is going to take some “trial and error” and some time and effort after class concludes if I want to better understand WordPress beyond the “drag-and-drop” content knowledge.
I would like to say that I understand this article about creating a theme from scratch (https://www.taniarascia.com/developing-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch/), but I got lost pretty quick. It seems to be well-written. I did save the link to this article with the hope of revisiting it someday and understanding what’s going on.
Did you run into any trouble along the way? How did you solve it? Thank goodness for the Week 5 lesson/lecture being recorded, which allowed me the opportunity to watch and following along the coding lesson which I was then able to use to help me complete the blog feed assignment for web development blog feed (https://www.ronaldseam.com/web-development).
I have also searched for a well-written book on Amazon about working with and using WordPress, but so far I’ve only found ones that have a “no coding” (drag-and-drop, plug-ins, etc.) approach which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid.
I wish I can say I get “that wonderful feeling” from WordPress (and I genuinely mean this) like I do when I see a Disney movie intro, like the one here:
I just gotta remind myself that Disney the company exists because the founder failed over and over and over again, but didn’t give up. Perhaps that’s the moral of this blog post here.
Although it eludes me now, I hope to get “that wonderful feeling” when I work with WordPress sometime in the future.