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[News from my own personal WordPress Torture Chamber]...

by TimothyW
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I am in the throws of my own little wordpress learning curve.
There's way too much curve, and not enough learning, it seems.

Here are my 2 current problems...

1) What's with the GRAY text??? I keep changing it to black, then I save, then it's (automatically changed) back to GRAY. HUH?

2) When I hit save draft or update, my hard drive starts wildly CHURNING (the fan), and I have to sit there while the changes are being saved FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES -- all the while the fan churning furiously. I don't get it,.. should hitting the update button take 2 seconds???

Please advise.

This can't really be how WP is SUPPOSED to operate -- can it?

-- TW
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

    1) What's with the GRAY text??? I keep changing it to black, then I save, then it's (automatically changed) back to GRAY. HUH?
    That could be in the Style Sheet.

    Most WP themes use a stylesheet to set the fonts, colors, etc. with CSS.

    If you are editing text of a type that is controlled by the CSS Stylesheet you may not see your settings once the stylesheet is applied.

    Look in the style sheet to see if it is managing what you are trying to change.

    2) When I hit save draft or update, my hard drive starts wildly CHURNING (the fan), and I have to sit there while the changes are being saved FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES -- all the while the fan churning furiously. I don't get it,.. should hitting the update button take 2 seconds???
    This I don't know. Do you have an old computer with low memory?

    I assume you are doing the work directly on the server. Editing is not local and then uploaded on saves?

    15 minutes seems like an unusually long time.
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  • Profile picture of the author NatesMarketing
    The text color is probably due to CSS.

    How are you changing the text? Is it within the CSS file?

    As for your computer "revving up" - that doesn't make much sense to me. Are you running WP on your computer?

    If not, then all of the processing should be server side.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
    Thanks. If the style sheet overrides the changes I try to make, then why have the editor with those "options?" What's the point in fooling me into thinking I have control over those things?
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    1. That's not WP: that's your theme's stylesheet over-writing your manual mess... for the sake of uniformity of the style/look every CMS does this. If you want to manually style every line - you shouldn't use a CMS... where the whole idea is that the posts/Pages all look the same = predefined style from the CSS file.

    2. Is this an online WP install or a local (xampp or similar) installation?
    And NO, WP is not supposed to do that! There must be something wrong with one or more of the components: your host, its database, your internet connection/ISP, your computer.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
    Thanks.
    I think I found where the gray is in the style sheet. (#666666), so I changed it to #000000.
    If I remove all those attributes from the style sheet, will that remove the control -- and give ME the control? Is it safe to do that? If the style sheet says NOTHING about what the body text should be -- what will the text be, if I don't specify anything (in the editor)?
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    If there are no CSS styles then the browser will show the defaults.

    CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

    What this means is the styles cascade and override one another.

    First the browser looks for styles in an external style sheet. This is a file named stylesheet.css or something and is linked in the HEAD part of the web page.

    Next it looks for styles at the top of the individual page for style definitions and will override the external css file settings (if any) and use the local styles instead.

    You can cascade futher and override the page styles with in-line styles that are applied only to the single element they are defined for.

    There are great lessons and references at W3 Schools: CSS Tutorial
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