Existing Website Update Using Old Putty Theme

  • rachelsimonetti

    (@rachelsimonetti)


    6 years ago

    Hi, Im very bad at this, basically the back story is, I have a website built for me around 2015 with the idea I would then take over control and be able to add and amend content. This has been OK up until now. I am using a theme called Putty.

    I have come to redesign my website somewhat and I have done the updates etc.

    I am very crap at this but I cannot seem to:
    Change my colours on my theme (see link to page where I am trying to do this)
    On editing text on my homepage, when I hit return to try and get separate paragraphs, it works in the editor but not on the actual website.
    Because I this I wanted to add a line, which you can do in the editor, but again it doesn’t show on my actual website.

    I gave up trying anything else in the end!
    Is this because Im using an old theme? Is the plugins causing me problems? Am I just completely inapt when it come to this!?!

    Any help in layman’s terms appreciated and I cannot code to save my life!!
    Thanks in advance
    Rach – frustrated owner of Create the Scene
    PS Im available for any party after this virus has been beaten!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    6 years ago

    I don’t see your theme in the WP repository, so I can’t help much with that.

    I see you are using the latest WP version, which contains the block editor (added in late 2018). It has new ways to do things, but the old theme won’t have been updated to make the editor look like the front end. And if you are simply editing an existing page, the content will be in a Classic block, which doesn’t use the new way.
    But besides that, all web publishing has a difference in the amount of attention you should pay to white space, compared to print. The browser will collapse consecutive white space, unless you apply styles to make it stay. That’s just what browsers do, as the content is rendered into the device width. That is a good thing, because then you don’t have to be so careful to test your page on every possible window size that your visitor might use.

    You can use the Customizer to preview what your site would look like with other themes (and see what options the theme has). Find one you like and it’s pretty simple to switch.

    Thread Starter rachelsimonetti

    (@rachelsimonetti)

    6 years ago

    Thanks Joy, I have worked out today what Blocks is and have been restyling the pages and it looks so much better! It was like an epiphany! I think the theme is defunct as you say and this may be limiting the customisation…maybe! I think Ill stick with the theme for now so I don’t start complicating it.

    In future I would like to try a new theme, but worried about doing this on a live website!

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