Richard Patterson

As I indicated in my initial post, I am working locally on my desktop using Local. I have started over with a separate website in an attempt to recreate what I had done with the original one. The new website does not have the problem with the Navigation bar, but it has others.

Thanks again. The instructions for managing colors for a Navigation block are precisely what I have done repeatedly to create a dark background and white text. When I do that it looks exactly like I want it in the editor, but when I view the actual site only the Home Link is white and the Page Links are invisible because they are the same dark color as the background (which is the color I use for a lot of text on the site). So my question remains what can cause this difference between the preview in the editor and the actual site. I have tried clearing the cache several times, but even that does not make sense because it would imply that the cache somehow stored a version I never created or saw.

Trying to set up a test site to see if the Navigation bar worked proved counterproductive because I had so much trouble making it work at all. I did manage to have a navigation block with a Home Link and a Sample Page link that were white on the dark background, but the Home Link did not work. (It took me to an error message saying home could not be found.)

I tried turning off all my plugins and I still got the same result in my actual website.

The Home Link block in my Navigation block has a style setting for color. There seems to be no way to set a color for a link to the Contact page or the About page. I assume it is inheriting its color from some other setting, but I can’t find that setting. If there is some global setting, isn’t there supposed to be a way to override it for any particular block? Is there a way to set the style of all the Page Link blocks? I have other URL links on the website that I do not want to set to white. I think I just made them links inside a Paragraph and was able to set them to a blue color.

Obviously I have somehow waded in way above my head, but it seems to me it should be possible to make the website look the way I want.

OK. I’ll focus on something else. I appreciate you persistence and help.

Thanks. I’ll try these suggestions. I appreciate your help.

Thanks. I’m still confused by what is happening. I have a Page which is called Homepage and uses the Front Page template. When I edit the page, the settings show Front Page as the template it is using, although Front Page is not included in the dropdown menu to select a template. When I edit the Page I see things that do not appear on the page when I view the site.

It seems to me that the distinction between layout and content becomes a bit foggy if my layout includes a header and two columns, one of which is a sidebar with a list of links and the other is a paragraph of permanent text. Are you suggesting that my layout should just consist of empty blocks for the header and the sidebar as well as the paragraph? If the Front Page template is always and only for the homepage, it seems to me that editing the content is the same as editing the layout. Obviously WordPress does not agree with me. : )

Is the Front Page template an obsolete template left over from some earlier incarnation of WordPress?

Thanks. I tried to look at Global Styles settings but I am not sure how I can edit a Global Style for Navigation block text color or a Global Style for a Page Link. I see Global style setting for the Home Link Block which seems to show the background and text colors for my content, but I don’t see how to edit it. So far as I can tell there are no styles in any additional CSS area? I certainly never consciously added one. The only plugins that I have active are Sticky Block, Guttenberg, Default Post Sort, Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography. Do you think any of these would be a problem? So far as I can see the Fonts Plugin does not control the color of a font. I don’t see any “visited” color as an option on the Page Links. And I cleared the cache in Safari.

Does the navigation block you tested have a Page Link and a Home Link? In mine the Home Link works but not the Page Link.

Would I be better off just building a pseudo-navigation block by having a row with a dark background and adding columns of text which I make links?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Richard Patterson.

This is a good example of why I find WordPress confusing. I saw a post about using FrontPage as the home page. I discovered that Front Page was available to add but not included by default in the interface. I added it and made it match the homepage I had created earlier. Now when I go to Pages I see Homepage listed with Front Page as its template. If I click on Edit beneath that it displays essentially an unformatted page with nothing but “Homepage” as its title. If I look at its settings it says it is using the Front Page template. If I look at the pulldown menu of templates available all I see are Default, Blank and Blog (Alternative). If I go to the site it displays the Front Page homepage as I want it. But if I select Edit Page it displays a blank page. If I select Edit Site, I can click on the display and edit the Front Page version of my homepage. Is this supposed to make sense in some way I am not understanding?

Thanks. I appreciate your responding so quickly and helpfully.

Somehow the white space went away on its own accord. I have no idea what I changed that fixed the problem. I’m afraid this is typical of my experience with WordPress. I have so many issues going on that I get lost.

Is it possible to transfer the static page I designed from the Home template to a new homepage? There seems to be something contradictory about the fact that I was able to edit the Home template to be a static page but both places where I can set the Homepage to be static it still shows it as last blog. I know at some point earlier in the process I set it to be static, but that may have been before I switched to the Twenty Twenty Three theme.

I think I found the list of blocks, but I am not sure a change there is globally applied. If I have previously set a style for an individual block, does it still override the new global style setting. If so, is there a way to reset all the styles to the global default or do I have to reset each block to default individually.

I can’t find the place to edit blocks. The documentation on Styles says”You will also find a section for?Blocks. Clicking on the?Blocks?section will show you a list of all the blocks.” Where am I supposed to see a section for Blocks listing all the Blocks. All I can find is a way to edit the blocks on my home page.

Thanks. I definitely think there are more elegant ways to hide/show controls, and assumptions about which control I am going to want to use are not helpful.

I’m not sure what you mean by “changes made to Block type.” Is there a way I can make global style changes for a paragraph block in full-site editing?

I agree and was amazed to see that this even had to be debated.

I discovered the settings in the Quick Edit window on the All Pages list. It includes a drop down setting the template for the page. I was able to change the template from default to Blank and then edit the template. I’m not sure why the interface element is called Quick Edit rather that Settings and I had never thought to look at it.

Actually, you may be right. Looking at the screen capture again I think it was operator error and that the margin setting for the third paragraph had not been unlinked so that it was being applied all around.