In looking at a student’s WordPress site today, I noticed that their version of php was 7.2.x. This was expressed as a warning in the WordPress dashboard. Fortunately, this upgrade is easy to do on most hosts. It will take about a minute. WordPress recommends as a minimum php 7.4. Upgrading will improve performance and security. Here’s […]
In this exercise, you will write a WordPress theme to output content the way it appears in the screenshots. Initial Setup For this exercise, please download the starter files. If the php8 version does not work for your version of mamp, download the php7 version. Faceplace Starter Files (php 8.0.8) Faceplace Starter Files (php 7.4.2) […]
The WMDD 4840 final assignment requires you to deploy WordPress to a live server and get a domain name. In the materials below, there are three different ways to do this. Deploying to Amazon Lightsail Deploying via the control panel of a typical host company such as Namecheap.com Deploying to the WMDD Server with the […]
In the summer semester, we will work with the Film Arts department to create websites for their Unlock The Vault graduating film festival. In the Spring semester, that option is not possible, so this will instead serve as an alternative. The main learning outcome of this course is that you learn how to use, set […]
First, please download the starter files. This is a Duplicator archive for you to install in a new database. Finally, please download the screenshots and then the resources (images + text file). Finally, here is a Loom video describing the task. Note: one of the downloadable resource files is a text file. Use this to […]
First, please download the starter files. Starter Files Make a new database and install the duplicatored site into it. As part of that duplicator process, make a new Admin Account, using your first and last name as both the user name and password. For the nickname, use your initials. Make sure that you do this, […]
First please download the Starter files. This is a Duplicator Archive for you to install. As part of this process, be sure to create a new Admin account so that you can log into the site. And please also download the screenshots. Please use the screenshots to understand the layout and style details required in […]
Task Fifteen: Investigating Excerpts Now click on Blog in the menu. This will take you to the listing of posts. Scroll through the posts. You will notice here that right after each post’s feature image, there is a paragraph of text. For the first post, that text will be the following: The Vexter Fuzz Factory […]
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.
A WordPress starter theme is a great way to build your own themes. Starter themes are, as the name implies, meant to serve as the code foundation upon which you build your theme. With a good starter theme, you have a 1000-hour headstart. This is because on its own the starter theme will typically deliver […]