Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-45942000-20200529235035/@comment-3182821-20200530100536

Hey! Welcome to the Wiki coding experience! I remember well how you're feeling, it's so confusing at first. Wikia are promising us software updates sometime "This year" and when that happens it'll be easier, and hopefully less broken! But in the meantime you just need to learn the ways to work-around.

OK, my first tip is don't use the "Edit" button, instead hover over the triangle arrow next to it and select "Classic Editor". This is the older edit function and while it's a bit broken in some ways, it's also more stable and easier to use in other ways. It won't display the galleries but it has the options to "Preview Mobile / Desktop" which are more accurate anyway. The big advantage to the Classic Editor is that you can easily switch to "Source Code", and that is all colour-coded. You need to get the hang of the code, but it's not difficult!

My second tip is to copy and paste! I keep a note file on my desktop with the most useful codes, like the gallery tags we use with expand="true" which means you don't just get a top 8 images, it forces it to load all the images. The code is straightforward once you work out what does what, and the big advantage of the Classic Editor is that colour-coding which shows you when something is wrong by a whole chunk of the page being the wrong colour!

Third tip - don't be scared. If something goes wrong, I can "rollback" and undo everything in one click (the great power of admin!) Everything is archived, nothing is lost by editing on here. Worst case I have to go through and untangle things. The "Edit" function (not Classic Editor) can crash and wipe everything you've done, so if it's going well, save frequently. And feel free to ask for more help!