From Database to Ready: Setting up a WordPress Project
Together we’ll be working on setting up an installation of WordPress from scratch. You will need… Other examples for a local development server include MAMP, for Apple and DesktopServer. But I always use XAMPP for Windows which you can download, here. This site will use XAMPP, going forward. Getting Started With XAMPP, when installed it […]
Converting a project to a WordPress Theme
You’ve got your WordPress Project up and running. Now it’s time to learn how to customize a WordPress theme to make it look the way you want. Out of the box, WordPress is bundled together with 2 or 3 separate designs that you can use called “Themes”. If you wanted to, you could choose one […]
Blog: Using Templates, setting up a navigation menu and list of posts
At the moment all we’re serving is the catch-all template file, index.php. This is because there’s currently no other template for WordPress to find. It’s looking for one of 2 things: index.php, which it can find right now, or it either needs to find a front-page.php template or home.php template as its homepage. The templates, […]