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I’m completely confused now.
I have tried the following themes:
Twenty Seventeen
Astra
OceanWP
Blog Way
… and some others.
I believe I’m very far from unique in wanting the following basic options out of the box:
1. The main blog page showing excerpts with a “read more” or “continue reading” button or link.
Every advice I’ve managed to find on the web says that there is an option for inserting a “read more” button while you’re editing. My installation does not seem to feature that option, and none of the themes I’ve tried seem to feature it either.
2. “Post a comment” link that is positioned UNDERNEATH the post, not above it.
Optional (a blogger does not really need a subscriber list, does he, so, who cares?):
3. A subscription form, complete with a ‘subscribe” button.
Also optional, but would be nice to have:
4. Typography whose default fonts are large enough (or can be rendered large enough) for Google NOT to complain that the text is too small to read in mobile mode.
I do have a bunch of static pages on my site, and the HOME page points to those, rather than the blog posts. Is THAT the problem? I don’t know.
I may be wrong, but in my view themes on the leading BLOGGING platform (WordPress) should feature such options ahead of ANY OTHER options.
Each time I dig a little deeper, suggestions begin pouring in, telling me I should get this or that plug in and, above all, the premium (paid) version of the theme – without giving me any guarantees.
I’ve played around with a bunch of plugins. One of them came damn near close to taking down and corrupting beyond recognition my entire site – one of the plugins that provide a comment section turned out to be incompatible with the Mailchimp plugin.
I’m a fairly open-minded individual, but doesn’t it seem weird to anyone that blogging themes on a leading blogging platform do not INSTANTLY and FREE OF CHARGE provide a blogger with the BASIC features needed in blogging?
Sheesh.
Any ideas? Which theme should I try next?