WORDPRESS: How to use this stupid site from hell
There's no easy way to say this: WordPress will never work the way you want it to. Nor the way your instructors want it to. It crashes all the time, it's buggy, and for some reason it's still our main way to submit work in the Fine Arts program. So here's a super bare-bones way to succeed in WordPress without really trying. 1. Do all of your edits straight from the page itself. Doing things from the dashboard is stress-inducing and scary. Find your post, select "Edit Post" on the top menu bar. 2. Adding things to your post: You can add so many things, but WordPress has preferences. When you click on the little plus sign in your post, click "Browse All". Anytime you add something, the section is called a "block". You can change what kind of block you've added by clicking on the icon on the far left of the popup bar for that block. The popup bar for paragraph blocks. Paragraphs are the default block type, so any time you press enter you&