{"id":127,"date":"2020-05-05T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:28:30","slug":"continue-working-on-your-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Continue Working on Your Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Trial and Error<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s different this week? <\/strong>Other than the blog feed page at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/web-development\">https:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/web-development<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to make your own WordPress theme from scratch (2019)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pFMgAWkrk8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;t understand and was a step in the right direction in trying to understand the &#8220;coding-side&#8221; of WordPress; it just wasn&#8217;t the giant leap that I had hoped. It also didn&#8217;t really yield anything that materialized on my website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What did you learn that\u2019s worth sharing?<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t really learn anything worth sharing, but if there&#8217;s one thing I learned for myself is that this is going to take some &#8220;trial and error&#8221; and some time and effort after class concludes if I want to better understand WordPress beyond the  &#8220;drag-and-drop&#8221; content knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to say that I understand this article about creating a theme from scratch (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taniarascia.com\/developing-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch\/\">https:\/\/www.taniarascia.com\/developing-a-wordpress-theme-from-scratch\/<\/a>), 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&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did you run into any trouble along the way? How did you solve it?<\/strong> 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/web-development\">https:\/\/www.ronaldseam.com\/web-development<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also searched for a well-written book on Amazon about working with and using WordPress, but so far I&#8217;ve only found ones that have a &#8220;no coding&#8221; (drag-and-drop, plug-ins, etc.) approach which is exactly what I&#8217;m trying to avoid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I can say I get &#8220;that wonderful feeling&#8221; from WordPress (and I genuinely mean this) like I do when I see a Disney movie intro, like the one here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vBLXhx9vdHg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I just gotta remind myself that Disney the company exists because the founder failed over and over and over again, but didn&#8217;t give up. Perhaps that&#8217;s the moral of this blog post here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it eludes me now, I hope to get &#8220;that wonderful feeling&#8221; when I work with WordPress sometime in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial and Error What\u2019s 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. 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