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WordPress II Day 6
Tonight…
• Moving your SiteGround WordPress site (continued)
• Building our own Theme
• Mid-Term Project
WordPress in Its Own Directory
• codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
• “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” section (about half -down)
• Steps to follow…
In WordPress Admin - General panel
1. Go to the General panel.
2. In the box for the Site Address (URL): change address to the root directory’s URL - remove the ‘/wordress’ directory.
3. Click Save Changes.
In WordPress Admin - General panel
In SiteGround’s cPanel File Manager
4. Copy the index.php and .htaccess from the wordpress directory into the root directory (public_html)
In SiteGround’s cPanel File Manager
5. Edit your root directory’s index.php:
a. Change the line that says:
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wp-blog-header.php' );
to the following:
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );
b. Save the file.
In SiteGround’s cPanel File Manager
In SiteGround’s cPanel File Manager
In WordPress Admin - Permalinks panel
6. Login to your site (if you aren’t already).
7. If you have set up Permalinks, move to the Permalinks panel and update (or re-save) your Permalinks structure.
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Creating Your Own Theme
• We don’t have to start from scratch
• Project or starter themes provide a starting point
• Multiple options - see Six Revisions article
• Naked, Bones, Roots
Mid-Term Project1. Using one of the Project (or starter) themes like
Naked-Wordpress, create your own uniquely named theme.
2. Modify your theme to have a different/unique:
a. color styling, including background colors of the header and footer areas, text, borders,…
b. selection of fonts
c. text alignment and layout alignment
3. BONUS: See if you can personalize the “credit line” in the footer. (Hint: see the footer.php template file)
Homework
• Do a little research on Custom Post Types
• Lots of online resources: TUTS+, WPBeginner,…
• To get you started see:
• madebyraygun.com/quick-introduction-custom-post-types-custom-taxonomies-wordpress