themes

Follow the instructions as listed at http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes Specifically, in your wp-content/themes folder: create another directory named Tesseract-child in Tesseract-child create a style.css file in your style.css file include the following header style.css contents: /* Theme Name: Tesseract Child Theme URI: http://example.com/ Description: Tesseract Child Child Theme Author: John Doe Author URI: http://example.com Template: Tesseract Version: … Read more

There are a couple of options. One: there are plugins that will let just certain logged-in users see the site in a different theme. You could use one of these and enable the new theme for yourself until you’re ready to make the switch. Two: copy your site onto a staging site and experiment there. … Read more

The root problem here is assumptions. For example lets say we have an array here: $test = [ ‘foo’ => ‘bar’ ]; If we run echo $test[‘foo’]; we should see bar, but what if we ran echo $test[‘bananas’];? There is no bananas entry in that array, so PHP will notice this, throw a warning/notice similar … Read more

Right now I suggest simply uploading it via FTP. If you’re not too familiar, many hosts offer “WebFTP” which is usually easier to use. For the future you might consider GitHub Updater, check out their wiki. This basically allows you to use a new setting in style.css GitHub Plugin URI: foo/bar Once configured, you can … Read more