Unable to get off the ground

  • Hello All,

    My apologies for a first post that may only require a quick bit of signposting. I think I have looked across the site and web for my answer but if I just need a newbie steer push me in the right direction.

    I have been left to my own devices with a personal WordPress site and am learning by making adjustments and editing. One thing that is really holding me back is not having the right vocabulary for the absolute basics and how my website jigsaw fits together.

    I need to establish things like the priciples of what a module is, whats the difference between margins and padding, how that affects dividers, what the word for the background picture is, what a featured image is etc etc etc.

    Looking around I get the feeling that all this is so basic that no one is explaining it.

    I hope that makes sense and I look forward to someone (literally) stating the obvious for me.

    Thanks folks,

    Barney.

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  • You might find this article helpful https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-a-new-post-in-wordpress-and-utilize-all-the-features/

    When you hit a bit of ‘jargon’ you don’t understand you can highlight it and then search for it in Google or your preferred search engine with most good web browsers.

    Hope this helps!

    The Documentation link in the menu above leads you to a lot of articles about getting started and explaining things.

    Not sure where you read about a “module”, as that is not a term used much for WordPress. To me, it sounds like a collection of code.
    Margins and padding are controlled on the web with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which you shouldn’t need to know in order to make a web site, as the theme handles that for you. The biggest difference between them is that backgrounds and borders apply to padding, but not to margin. Another difference is that margins can be negative, and thereby move an element out of place, but padding must be a positive number.
    A background image can be made in several ways, some by CSS only and some by combining HTML and CSS, so there’s not one word for it.
    A featured image is a WordPress term that just means an image per post that has been designated as “special”. How these are used is determined by the theme and plugins. WordPress only provides the functions to set and retrieve them.

    Thread Starter barnaby99

    (@barnaby99)

    Thank you for info, which I have been following up.

    I am getting slightly more wise for in my old age but not much…..

    The site has a Divi child theme (I think) and I can open menus and change options which I am experimenting with, however, for instance, I have two buttons stuck right down at the bottom of a section which I want to be a little higher and a logo which I put next to them which is not showing at all. From the menus I have options for:

    Section Module Settings
    Row Module Settings
    Button Module Settings
    Image Module settings.

    In those settings I can change content (which I largely Understand) and Design. Design gives me options, among other things:

    Image alignment
    Module alignment
    Space below Image
    Custom Margins
    Custom Padding
    Borders
    Boarder width

    Really all I need is a quick A4 sketch of how these options affect things and how the Section, Row and element (Image, button etc) affect each other.

    I am grateful for your time in trying to understand me and apologies for my low level of understanding, I really am lacking the vocabulary at this time.

    Thanks, Barney

    All of those items you listed are not WordPress items. So they are either added by a theme or a plugin. You need to ask in the appropriate support forum so you will find people that know about them.

    Thread Starter barnaby99

    (@barnaby99)

    Gutter, that’s another one!

    Thread Starter barnaby99

    (@barnaby99)

    OK, so it seems that I am looking for advice in the wrong place.

    Thans very much for everyone’s time.

    All the best

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