Techxan
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Since I have already said it handles posts very well, I concede your point about them. However, if I write an article about this past election and use a page title along the lines of " What is up with the American Media" and write an article about the lack of professionalism in journalism today, the heading of the article needs to be the H! tag and support the article, not the attention getting headline.
Also, If I use the H1 tag I get something like this:
What's up with the American Media?
when I need something like this:
What's up with the American Media?
In order for it not to look like a 6th grader did it.
Since the theme allows different line heights for each title tag, it throws off the alignment of the article every time you use a heading. H1 title will have more space under and above it than an H2 or H3. causing the article to look like crap. Lord help you if you actually want to use the h-tags and keep all the titles the same size, YOU CAN'T DO IT.
Well, if you know coding, you can change the CSS for the tag, or you can add inline styles to the heading tag, but then you can wind up with a tag nested inside another tag because the theme has an assigned tag for the space you just used.
Also depending on the theme when you use an inline font statement the entire font statement gets carried to the nav menu, so if you use a h1 tag for a page title, the page title is huge in the menu.
I spent an hour yesterday getting one paragraph to display right because the damn theme kept floating the text to the right of the h2 tag title. Only did this on 1 of four h2 tags in the article, and I had to end up putting a <br><p></p><br> just to get the damn thing to display like the other tags in the same paragraph.
The fact that you have not ran into these issues tells me you are a fill in the space kind of guy or girl, that's all. You take the theme and fill in the blanks, and call it a site with SEO. Of course that perfect article you wrote and put on the page, added to all the text that your global areas toss into the page has now changed the focus of your SEO because your on-page SEO uses all the text on your page to figure out what the site is about. All those archives, related posts, and other crap is diluting the article and page focus, but I guess you figure that Google will simply read the content section and grade your page on it only. You must be special, for most of us, the entire page content is counted, global areas and all.
And if you are so comfortable using a WP theme, why do you assume that you must build an HTML page from scratch. There are far more beautiful HTML templates than WP themes, and they do not lock you into sidebar-content-sidebar, or sidebar-sidebar-content, or whichever option your theme offers.
As for the "incapable" statement, where do you get that? I'm incapable because I see the faults with this platform rather than gushing like a schoolgirl about it's power? Because I actually know SEO, and seeing the problems that WP has, pointed them out?
I actually use WordPress quite a lot. I am not incapable of fixing it, I just do not see the need to spend hours trying to defeat default behavior. When I can build a fill in the blank site I do. I have 5 page business sites that I clone when someone needs a 5 page business site. When I need to have a blog I use WP. I have a few themes that I even like, default behavior and all.
SEO is hard enough with out restrictions, WP sometimes inflicts insurmountable barriers to SEO. It does not allow for creativity, unless you are halfway to becoming a developer.
This statement that I do not know what I am talking about because there are many high rated BLOGS simply proves my point. WP is a blogging platform. How many highly successful business sites or e-commerce sites do you see built in WP? How many times do you visit a blog and buy a product there?
I can add a trailer to a VW, and call it a log hauler, but it is not designed to haul logs, and no matter what I add to it, it never will be.
Wordpress is for blogging, not general websites nor e-commerce. It is designed from the ground up to offer minimum functionality in exchange for ease of use. It is designed to present the written word in chronological order. No matter what you hang on it, aside from a custom theme, it never will be anything else.
Don't have to, HTML/CSS,m Joomla, and Drupal already exist.
If you are happy with fill in the blank SEO solutions, fine. Generally though, SEO is more than title, desc, and h1 tags. Since youare blogging, I suppose the plugin is good enough.
Really? That makes sense to you? For SEO?
Can't you do that with a HTML/CSS template, or is that somehow different in your mind to using a theme?
They aren't simple
You never noticed some of this before? Good for you, just keep filling in the blanks. I try to customize my sites to satisfy my needs or what my customer needs.
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