You probably want to edit the header.php of your theme and use the WordPress function do_shortcode $myShortCode = “[your_short_code]”; do_shortcode($myShortCode); This will output the content generated by your shortcode wherever you want.
Try checking what your front page is set to in Settings > Reading. It should either have the your latest posts option selected, or the static page option selected and the front page set to a valid page. Edit: Wait… the http://www.walkerpoolenixon.com/wordpress url you provided doesn’t exist! Maybe you mean http://www.walkerpoolenixon.com/?
Ubuntu 13.04 create new wordpress theme from scratch problems
You can check for details on open_basedir in PHP documentation. Your issues very well might be caused by it. Despite that scripts and styles are typically not affected by PHP settings, in case of WP admin by default they are loaded through PHP script for concatenation. It is hard to guess what and how exactly … Read more
Folder Permissions + Security Concerns
Best practices for configuring a server?
Unable to access WordPress server locally running using vagrant
Yes, you absolutely should use a proper code editor like Eclipse instead of the web interface. Another good idea that will save you tons of headaches is to install git and create a local repository for you changes. Commit your changes every time you complete a feature or fix a bug and you’ll have a … Read more
On your current website add Duplicator(a free plugin) and create a new package, that you can use in the new environment. It will give you several options on Storage, Archiving and Installer script.
It will be a problematic thing to do as it will require you to let the webserver run scripts as a system root. It is somewhat hard and requires a lot of thinking security wise about the implications of letting a web server do it. But you are spared of all that thinking 😉 as … Read more