In this exercise, you will investigate the use of Custom Post Types, Custom Fields, and Custom Taxonomies. First, please watch this Loom video series and follow along creating the site I create in the videos. To do that, please download the images and data for the custom fields to follow along with the video. In […]
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Note: if you are taking WMDD4835 without taking 4840 at the same time, your final assignment can be found here. If you are taking current both 4835 and 4840 (or only 4840) the final assignment will have the following characteristics: The Details Every year in August, the Langara Film Arts department puts on a Film […]
In this exercise, we’ll examine how easy it is to create a Block theme. Demonstration Exercise First download and install this Duplicator package. If you get an error on installation, set your version of PHP back. Don’t forget to create an admin account as part of the installation. Now follow all the steps in this […]
For this exercise, please download and install this starter content and download the screenshot. Here is a Loom video demonstrating the task. The starter content is a Duplicator archive for you to install. Housekeeping Tasks Once you’ve installed the site, do the following: Create Your Theme Use the already-installed Create Block Theme plugin to generate […]
First, please download the starter files. This is a Duplicator package. Now, download the screenshots. Finally, please watch this Loom video demonstration of the look and behaviour of the site. Note that the layout for the home, archive and search results page is basically the same. The only difference is the addition of a title […]
First of all, please download the starter files. As well, please download the (revised) screenshots. Then install the starter content: a Duplicator package. During this installation, make sure to add yourself as an Administrator. One the site is installed, login and go to the Plugins area and deactivate and delete the following plugins, if they […]
When editing your block theme’s theme.json file, a very useful thing to do is to add a reference that allows you to validate the data you are creating. This will also provide code hinting. This reference is to a document called a schema. How to Add the Reference If you add the following as the […]
Initial Setup Download Duplicator Site For this exercise, please download the starter files and the screenshots collection, if I don’t distribute them in class. These are big files, so the download might be a bit longer than that for most of the files on this site. Most, but not all, of the screenshots for the […]
If some of your WordPress posts or pages have the following error messsage output to the screen ob_end_flush: failed to send buffer of zlib, etc, the following steps should fix it.
This exercise will show you how to write custom loops in WordPress. Some Sample Content For this exercise, I have created a Duplicator archive of a small site. Please download the duplicator package (updated Feb 2022). Updated duplicator package (Feb 2023, PHP 8.0.8) For the download, use Chrome rather than Safari: Safari automatically unpacks ZIP […]