Geo247

James, Thank You for that and those details, I appreciate it.

FYI I did not report anything to any moderator unless I hit a button by mistake.

I am woeful at technology and trying to make the right decisions. When I had the mandatory CS course at uni, it was on a time shared desktop with a black-screen and green text, before GUI. Which may explain my confusion.

Thank You,

I don’t need theme suggestions I know the theme I want. This is for an indie film doing a festival run, so it has to have a professional look of a movie site, it can’t look like a bakery or a coffee shop, or real-estate office website, do you understand what I mean.

I have found a great looking theme. I just don’t know how safe it is using envato market to buy a theme with Paypal (I’ve read some nightmare stories), and if there is trouble after being installed it may take days to get a response from the designer. The alternative is to hire a going concern web company with a real phone number that will cost $2 grand, and I just don’t have the budget.

How customizable is Twenty Seventeen? My site just needs a full front page then a cast photos page, 2-trailers page, gallery page and an about and contact page. I think that is pretty simple but it needs to look right for a film and also be stable. I doubt anything would be added to it once it’s up, That would be for Twitter and Instagram links.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Geo247.

I have verified my domain in Google webmaster tools, but I find submitting a sitemap to be enormously confusing to me as I’m not an IT person. I also just don’t get meta tags and how to make them and where to put them.

As of this morning when Googling my name the WP Blog came up 1st on the 1st page of Google and sometimes did not come up at all on the first 5 pages of Google. So I think it must be starting to index (3rd day from launch of site)

Are site map submissions to Google webmaster tools crucial? How does a normal person without IT experience do this, or should I hire someone?

example: lets say my name was Elizabeth Shovelsnow. I just made that name up.

so my WP url would be elizabshovelsnow.com and my blog title would be Elizabeth Shovelsnow Artist.

In my case when I Google Elizabeth Shovelsnow The WP Blog doesn’t show up until the 5th page of Google.

Do you understand what I’m saying?

No I have yet to use Google analytics because I don’t know how yet. Is it difficult to do?

I appreciate the responses I have found a Google SEO Tutorial and will read it and try to understand it.

No No that was just an example. Replace john doe with my name which is not a very used term and is unique

I thought I made that clear in my post. Presuming john doe or my real name is a unique term not used much.

I put the zeros in to protect my identity on this forum…as its stated the zeros are actually numbers. do you understand?

Fixed thanks. I appreciate your help. Newbie learning.

I fixed it….went to the page of that blurb and unchecked allow comments

I’m just learning things!

I went to discussion and unchecked everything. Will comments still be able to be seen or should I just delete the blog and start over.

That is Chinese to me.

My theme is Twenty Eleven 1.2

How do I edit my themes template file to remove all references to comments?