WordPress Codex has quite extensive installation instructions. I see there’s a .zip file and a .tar.gz file — which should I use? No difference. Archive format is merely for convenience, contents are the same. I want the site to be at http not at www., but I do want either the site to also be … Read more
To answer your first question, in mosts hosts the www and public_html folders are the same, one just links to the other. To make things simple, start with the public_html folder. There is usually what is called a symlink between the two, pretty much like an alias or a shortcut. Now for the second question … Read more
Update your wp_options table. Look for siteurl and home and change their values to point to your localhost, that is, http://localhost/mylocalsite. This should be enough to make your site work again. You don’t need to find and replace all instances where the old url is present. For example you should not change the guid of … Read more
Always install the latest final version. This is the most secure version you can get. Older tutorials and guides should still mostly apply. If they don’t you will find enough replacements that are up to date.
If I have read this correctly… If you want to have your url as fittergroup.com but leave all your files in fittergroup.com/blog take a look at the WordPress documentation on ‘Giving WordPress Its Own Directory‘ In your ‘General’ settings panel: In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of … Read more
Basically yes, but you’ll have to ensure that your sub-domain’s document root set to the correct file location so that it picks up your WordPress files correctly. Then you’ll have the WordPress Site URL, which I assume would be: mydomain.com Then you have the WordPress URL, which would be your sub-domain. You’ll just need to … Read more
I had the same issue when I was trying to install WordPress on VM configured on my laptop. The VM IP was 192.168.1.101 and the database host configured in wp-config.php was ‘localhost’ but I changed that to the actual IP and added privileges in MySQL to access the database from said IP.
To build a separate site in the domainname.com/subdirectory_name directory while leaving the current site live at domainname.com, you would NOT want to modify the index.php file in the root. Your development site address is simply domainname.com/subdirectory_name
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Just do a search for “edit wordpress theme”. It sounds like it’s the “theme” you want to change. You can either modify what they have now, or you can make your own theme from scratch. If they just want some changes to the theme they have now you’ll probably just want to modify a theme, … Read more