In WordPress hell
OK, this day has been a nightmare. Trying to customize a WordPress template is not as easy as they make it sound in the tutorials, and I’m not a CSS novice either (or HTML, or PHP for that matter).
It started out all right — I created my little header and footer files, and got them all working. The real fun began when I tried customizing the sidebar and positioning elements to make the pages look consistently the way I want (yes, pages not posts, since hopefully I’m going to be using WordPress as CMS for whole websites).
The part causing all this aggravation is the time factor, I think. I’ll reposition something, then refresh the test page, then realize something else needs to be moved to compensate, refresh again, and so on, over, and over, and over…………
My only consolation is that once I get this done, hopefully it won’t have to be changed too much for each successive customer later. Or at the very least, I’ll be much more familiar with the inner workings!!!
I to have spent many hours trying to get the CSS of a WordPress template to look just the way I want. My main problem is with fonts. The “C” in CSS is for cascading and sometimes it sucks. Occasionally I want to create a specific style but some CSS, somewhere, is cascading in and screwing things up.
Arrrrggggggg!
Personally, I put a font style on the body tag and the h’s and ‘a’. That’s about it.