{"id":1518,"date":"2021-04-17T12:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:58:30","slug":"wordpress-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wordpress-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been immersing myself in WordPress for days now. I finally found a template I like &#8211; one of those paid ones that has a free version. It&#8217;s really solid and has a number of different templates within the template. Using the free version on my personal <a href=\"https:\/\/deliawilson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog<\/a>, I got to really dig into those weeds and I liked what I found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a minimalist, in design and in the back end so I&#8217;ve always preferred my clients not install many WP plugins or actually modify WordPress but this one template is well done and includes a number of widgets\/plugins that I like. I didn&#8217;t have to get much additional to make the site do what I wanted. It comes with a really decent responsive bit and ways to edit in admin that don&#8217;t impact the page source CSS styling much if any. Setting up a child theme was a snap with the provided files and I feel really satisfied with the end result.<\/p>\n<p>I always edit CSS on any site &#8211; display is highly important to me and too often editing formatting in a theme just dumps the CSS into the header of site, a poor way to format a website. Of course a child theme really helps avoid such issues but I&#8217;m lazy and don&#8217;t want to have to create a child theme when I don&#8217;t feel good about the longevity of the template to start with.<\/p>\n<p>This one includes 4 menus, several great little plugins, elementor editor (which I haven&#8217;t bothered with but folks may really like), live, instantaneous preview which becomes a teaching tool, and a lot of other features. Okay, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/oceanwp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OceanWP<\/a> in case you have to know! With a paid version you get a lot more choices of template\/layout and some other extensions but I&#8217;m fine with just the freebie for now &#8211; you do get support with the paid version but I definitely have plans to buy a multi-site package in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The blog you are presently reading is using a really old template which is missing a lot of functionality due to it&#8217;s age but the css is solid and I altered it for responsiveness. But no point in a child theme as it&#8217;s been dropped long ago by the creators. Since I wanted the blog incorporated as a portion of my whole website, this works well for me. I basically just added my site style sheet to the theme stylesheet and made few edits. It&#8217;s all I want or need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But if you are using WordPress for your entire website, you&#8217;ll probably want more.\u00a0 If you want me to install or work on WordPress, you will probably see it in action on your website. It&#8217;s really that adaptable &#8211; for virtually all websites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\\\"clearBoth><em> Author: Delia Wilson Lunsford, Founder &#038; CEO, WizTech, Inc. <\/em><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wiztech4zc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}