Hello, I have purchased a domain name and am hosting my site through Bluehost. I purchased a WordPress template by Creativo, called Laura, and I purchased Elementor Pro to help build it.
I’m confused about what that even means. I know the domain name is my website’s address, Bluehost in where my site lives, and WordPress is what I’m using to create the website, correct?
I can navigate to WordPress by logging into Bluehost, but I’ve noticed I can’t log into WordPress directly – why?!
Why are there so many ways to edit the website? I feel I can click through the left-side menu and see like 10 different “settings” and “theme options”. Then Elementor is a completely different editing option? How do I edit the site consistently?
I feel there are limited answers listed online. I’m extremely frustrated. Does anyone have the time to explain this to me? I keep reading about how user friendly it is and drag-and-drop building, etc. but I’m having trouble with it.
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Yes it’s like that, there are a lot of editing options. I tend to use the Frost theme because that’s what I’ve used in the past. If you purchased a theme usually you can edit the theme in the theme editing option that looks like a broom. each theme is different so it takes time to figure it out.
Elementor is a third-party addon for WordPress, a so-called page builder. Some people hate it, some people claim it makes their life easier. I don’t use it at all.
Yes, the domain is your site’s address, or URL. WordPress is your CMS (content management system). It is one of the most user-friendly advanced CMSs. Bluehost is your hosting company, aka host.
It is not rocket science, but there is a learning curve. Don’t expect to grasp everything at once. None of us grasped WP at once. Experiment in a sandbox and don’t expect your first site to be perfect. We make mistakes and we should learn from them.
You can login in to your WP admin dashboard usually at such url: your-domain.com/wp-login.php You need to use your real domain, of course.
WP is user-friendly (compared to other CMSs like Drupal or TYPO3), but it is also quite advanced. My tip would be watching some tutorials on YouTube and coming here with some specific questions.
You should be able to login directly under your domain.com/wp-admin being you have your credentials.
Even with a basic fresh install with elementor it can seem a little overwhelming when being introduced to the many design/templating type features it brings to a new WordPress user.
It will pretty much boil down to how “YOU” end up using the features you find helpful to your use case and your skills. You’re not going to need to use every feature you see available and as time goes on you could use a menu plugin and tuck most of it away.
But in general, once you figure out how you want to header and footers to be/work you can use elementor for that depending on your template you bought. The template should have docs to help you. The “Pages” feature you see in the menu is where you’ll benefit most from elementor for things like your Contact page and all the pages other than your blog pages.
I’ve mastered using WordPress and Page builders enough to tell you I wouldn’t know the first place to start other then recommending YouTube videos for things like “How to use elementor to create my About page” “how to use elementor to create a pricing page” “how to use elementor to create a data table that fetches remote data”. Tons of scenarios.
I think for most, after they learn the basics with elementor, knowing how to use the class features and using elements within each other, will end up with a ” Are you kidding me? It’s been this easy the whole time?” mindset. It’s just learning what does what and you’ll only learn that if you go in and mess with everything. Mess things up to learn to fix it (use staging).
Good luck
Bluehost was a grave mistake. Elementor coupled with shitty Bluehost is even worse. There are plenty of people making WordPress / Elementor content on YouTube, just search.
Check out @scottswebdev on YouTube. And just search YouTube for WordPress tutorials.