So, I just need a very basic site. I'm an author, just need a homepage to put books, release dates. Maybe one news page. Not thinking about newsletters yet and won't be getting a forum. That's it. No e commerce, nada.

I had an existing site which was created by a pro author but it looked old and tired and was done with elementor pro, the licence of which has now expired (he left it for me for a short time but it's gone now), it was a bit fancy and I struggled to maintain it. I have created a staging site on bluehost to set up my own.

using twenty twenty four I started following the official WP tutorial videos.

For a start, I don't see "static" as a page option on the settings/readings page. Secondly, wtf are wonderblocks doing there? Where did they come from? When the tutorial selects a block pattern of "page", I don't see it. I see posts, but not page. I don't see the other templates he sees.

I did, I admit, try out a lot of combinations of other themes and then had to delete a load of plug ins but I think I cleaned everything ok. Here's a cap of what I've got.

Wonderblocks though? I don't want them. I just want the wordpress ones.

(I installed Gutenburg manually but it's made no difference, also says it might not work with my version of WP anyway)