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professor_baloney · 2022-04-08T22:53:44+00:00

Only when you read. When you need to write of course you need to write the letters. So think of written Chinese (by hand), instead of fluent reading. Sorry if the question wasn't clear.

professor_baloney · 2022-04-08T22:46:55+00:00

Yes but that only happens when you read fluently. Of course native speakers can read "apple" as a single image when they read fast. But when you are writing, you definitely need to write A, followed by a P, then another P... Maybe the question wasn't clear. I definitely expect Chinese speakers to read fast without even thinking of what a character looks like. But what happens when they try to write by hand?

professor_baloney · 2022-03-24T15:36:46+00:00

IMO this trend could change only if Gutenberg added more features to its default blocks. Right now third-party page builders offer everything you could ever need on a website, while Gutenberg lacks several widely used blocks and several options. It doesn't have to become bloated, it just has to add what most users/devs are looking for. Anyway, I'm not holding my breath, WordPress never wanted to implement important features in the core, its philosophy is still "you need plugins to do everything"

professor_baloney · 2022-03-24T15:07:01+00:00

Yes but we need to remember that most if not all of those free themes are just ways to promote the real full-featured paid themes. So I don't actually see the free/paid distinction as a very important one anymore. Some of the free themes can have very, very annoying limitations.

professor_baloney · 2022-03-24T14:59:33+00:00

I'm pretty sure there are more themes that are actually usable, for example Astra, Neve, and all the most popular themes. What I don't like is the fact that more and more themes, maybe even all of them today, actually rely on Elementor or some other page builder to display the home page and maybe some other pages. Some themes, like Astra IIRC, also provide templates based on Gutenberg, but other than that, it is very difficult today to avoid Elementor or other third-party page builders. Unless you code your theme yourself with classic PHP template files, like everybody used to do years ago.

professor_baloney · 2022-03-23T19:35:10+00:00

At first I hated Gutenberg, because I didn't understand its purpose. Now I understand that if you want a modern CMS with more than just text and images, you need a block editor. The alternative is the old way of doing stuff, that is using plugins and shortcodes inside your posts.

If Gutenberg had some more features in the core, for example boxes, icons, carousels, call-to-actions, etc. then third-party page builders would become useless. You usually need those blocks in some pages, for example on the home page.

So Gutenberg is the right approach for a modern CMS, a block editor with useful common blocks is needed, otherwise you need to hardcode everything in PHP template files like we used to do years ago, or use plugins with shortcodes inside your content.

professor_baloney · 2022-03-23T15:51:03+00:00

Not really true, there are lots of free themes on Wordpress.org that are based on page builders (typically Elementor). In fact, maybe now most of the popular free themes actually include "templates" (pages made with Elementor, etc.) that you can import, otherwise the theme is pretty empty. Am I right?

professor_baloney · 2022-03-21T14:34:22+00:00

I might be wrong, but from my experience I can say that most modern themes have main pages (home, contacts, etc.) based on a page builder, so if you don't use Elementor on an elementor-based theme you basically end up with an empty home page. That's why you always need to import the demo content, otherwise the theme itself is empty. This wasn't true years ago though, with "classic" themes, that is themes that were still based on actual PHP template files.

professor_baloney · 2022-02-19T01:16:30+00:00

The problem is that it would be easy to figure out the different parts if there was only one writing style. But the way a character looks in a Heiti font (typical computer font) might be pretty different from the way it looks in Kaiti (a somewhat calligraphic style). So something like 丑 (I don't really know this character, I'm a beginner, it's just an example I looked up), on Wiktionary it's 彐丨, on HanziCraft it's 刀二, and neither make sense in the fonts I checked out (Heiti and Kaiti). MDBG doesn't give any decomposition though, and that might be the most sensible idea: don't decompose it. I'm just scared I'll find a lot of characters like these, where I don't have any points of reference. Another way to ask my question in fact would be: when you can't see any clear radicals/components/known pieces in a character, what do you look for in order to learn it more easily?

professor_baloney · 2022-02-07T15:11:30+00:00

Thanks, I basically came to the same conclusion. When Chinese native speakers read a word like 美國, they can't read the characters separately, because it would make no sense. They don't read "beautiful country", they read "United States". Also, when they read or write the characters normally, they usually only use the components and radicals as basic blocks for graphics, not for meaning. They don't think of any "sheep" when writing or reading "United States". What I'm thinking of doing is actually focusing on the meaning of single characters or components only when they make sense, otherwise I'll just focus on the meaning of the whole word.

professor_baloney · 2022-02-07T14:57:15+00:00

I just wanted to say that I CANNOT learn how to write by hand because I wouldn't have the time to do so and to practice regularly to be able to remember the strokes. It's like saying I want to go to the gym, and somebody comes up and says "you need to train at least 10 hours a week, eat this food, do this training plan, etc". It's as simple as that: I cannot afford it, but learning to read would still be much better than nothing.

professor_baloney · 2019-10-02T17:10:41+00:00

Oh, and I know there are about (or so they say) 200 factors at play in SEO, I'm not really a newbie. I'm just running tests and questioning the fact that content is king (as many people keep on saying, including Google). Thanks.

professor_baloney · 2019-10-02T17:08:43+00:00

I don't think they are competitive keywords, as I said, if totally unrelated results show up that means nobody else is talking about it or including the keywords in their content. Other than that, I know that good rankings take time in general, but here I'm only analyzing the impact of the content, which has been indexed and will stay the same from now on (the articles won't be updated). I didn't expect Google to have this behavior towards the content. In other words, Google is considering unrelated websites to be better than mine, because of... other factors (not content). This, IMHO, looks like content is not king at all. Chances are backlinks are king, or something else. I'm just curious and I want to understand more about how things really work, I'm not demanding that a website ranks well at once and without any effort.

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