Month: November 2012

  • Creating a Custom WordPress Theme #1

    There are two approaches to building Custom WordPress Themes, take an existing theme and customize it or write a custom theme from scratch. We’re going to do both and then you can decide which approach makes more sense to you. Customizing an Existing Theme http://freelanceswitch.com/industry-tips/customize-wordpress-theme/ Theming from Scratch How to code a WordPress 3.0 Theme…

  • Installing WordPress Locally

    Install WordPress 1. Download WordPress source code – put it in MAMP (“user/Sites” folder) 2. Make a blank Database for WordPress from the MAMP Start (click on PhpMyAdmin), configure wp-config.php file database name: wp-tutorial-db username: root password: ******** 3. Run the WordPress installer: Specify a Site name, Username, password 4. Download WordPress Importer plugin, activate…

  • WordPress 01: Basics

    Over the past 6 years WordPress has steady grown in popularity into the most used Content Management System (CMS) on the web. There are a number of reasons why WordPress is so widely used and such a great choice for a CMS: 1. Ease of Use: WordPress is not only easy to use for administrators…