Actually, creating a Child Theme is well documented in the Codex along with lots of tutorials. As for changes you make to the Customization screen in the parent theme, you’ll need to export those and then import them into your Child Theme. The Child Theme doesn’t inherit Customizations (I think). But there are Customization export/import … Read more
While not really a an answer when it comes to MAMP’s problem on Windows. Installing WAMP and running WordPress there instead fixed this issue.
A list of options, easier ones first. Run WordPress as a multisite network, you can find instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network Manually apply changes via .zip file and overwriting. Download latest zip from wordpress.org Make a backup of your file base per install Unpack the zip files then overwrite files in wp-admin and wp-includes. Overwrite root files … Read more
I am pretty sure this is down to your site running PHP4. I suspect that your server has both PHP5 and PHP4 installed and happens to running PHP4 on this site. You can verify this by uploading a file version.php to your web root folder containing the following PHP command <?php echo phpversion(); ?> Regards … Read more
Try adding this to your wp-config.php file: define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://’ . $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); That will define your site URL as whatever happens to be in the browser location bar. Very useful for moving a site from server to server without actually changing the siteurl and home location in the database. Just don’t leave … Read more
What you need to do is simple. Place the file in the root of the website. Access this file via web browser. For example. type – www.yoursite.com/searchreplacedb2.php In the page, enter your database details, including username and password. Also, specify your localhost http address, which in most cases is localhost For example, in my testing … Read more
You might need to install Xampp or Wamp on your computer first. Then setup a Virtual Host on your computer which will make sure your when you type your website address, it will point it to the local installation of your computer. Download XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html Setting up Virtual Host: http://ddmboss.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/how-to-set-up-virtual-hosts-using-xampp/ Hope that helps
How to make a copy of a local wordpress build in MAMP?
I used Search-Replace-DB from https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB to replace domain urls for the site I needed to develop. I also had trouble with the WP Sharely plugin which was enabled sitewide – it was looking for an activation file on a NAS box in the cloud somewhere. Once I disabled sitewide plugins manually in the DB, I … Read more
Well, you need a database. That seems like the biggest hurdle you’d face without any sort of administrative control over the server. Can you request a MySql database from the school Tech Dept? If you can get that, and you can run PHP scripts, it seems like you’d have little issue setting up a wordpress … Read more