December 10, 2018 Switched theme to VeniSwitched Homepage Settings from Static to Blog PostsSet default fontsSet featured posts for homepage sliderWanted to feature posts in a specific order, so I installed ‘Post Types Order’ plugin as recommended by the theme authorSwitched the main editor to GutenbergSet 3 featured pages on homepageAssigned featured images and cleaned up some post formatting December 12, 2018 Noticed alignment was off for the image in my last postWent to check in the editor that it was indeed center-aligned, but looking over at the frontend, clearly the formatting was not getting appliedTried adding an actual image to the post (non-gif) -> Preview -> image is not displayed in the PreviewWent on to just Publish -> image is now seen on the published post (but still not aligned properly) Therefore, decided not to move forward with Veni. While my goal was to have a site that mirrored Veni’s design, I also want it to work seamlessly with a theme compatible with Gutenberg. December 13, 2018 Switched theme from Veni to RosalieRealized sites on a BIZ plan like mine will have certain widgets removed. In this case, one of the theme’s featured elements, the IG feed which is controlled by the IG Widget.Downloaded the recommended workaround plugin ‘Instagram Feed’Mucked around for a good 20 minutes trying to get the builtin account authorization to work to no avail.Downloaded ‘Instagram Feed by 10Web’ and used that as an alternative solution for nowModified a bunch of pagesSet frontpage from static to latest posts -> modified number of posts displayed on the frontpage to 6 postsAdded and modified an ‘About’ widgetAdded MailChimp Subscriber widgetAdded and modified menu items The Revamped Site Thoughts I had a lot of fun with this little refresh project! I realize that there’s still clearly much more improvement that could be done in regards to making a theme setup more intuitive. Although, that topic could be saved for a whole different post. Basically, not everything is as easy to setup as it seems. I happened to have got it done relatively quickly because I work with these common theme issues on a daily basis. But even with that, I still found myself yelling at certain limitations I stumbled upon. After all, technology is suppose to… just work, right? Like this:Like Loading...