There’s absolutely no reason you should be paying for a domain for a site run in MAMP. MAMP lets you run WordPress on your local computer, but the site is not accessible over the internet, so you can’t give it a domain name. If you just want a nicer URL for your personal use locally, … Read more
You have use Appearance-> Menu and use custom menu and provide link there.
Normally, you’ll get those kinds of results because you have file permissions issues. The files all need to be readable and executable by whatever user the WordPress installation is running as (e.g. on most typical webservers, including if you’re running LAMP/MAMP locally, it’s usually something like the www user and staff group). You’ll need to … Read more
I’m still having trouble following your question. You say you’re familiar with giving WP it’s own directory, but I think you may be confusing installing a second WordPress install in a separate sub-directory with giving WordPress it’s own sub-directory. Possible file structures: Single site: /index.php (and all the rest of wordpress installed at root) Multiple … Read more
For the .htaccess-question, Stephen has a nice answer to that here: WordPress will overwrite the entries between ‘# BEGIN WordPress’ and ‘# END WordPress’. While most plugins will create their own begin and end tags and only update within those tags. Simply put your custom entries outside of any custom tags/comments and they SHOULD be … Read more
You are using an old version of WordPress. Because you do not have proper access to the panel, you need to update as follows: Access your FTP and copy the files that are there to your computer as a backup. Download the latest version of WordPress here: https://wordpress.org/ If they are zipped, extract the downloaded … Read more
If i understand your question correctly: Go to your WordPress installation public_html folder, open up wp-config.php and past this into it on its own line at the bottom: define(‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, false); that will then activate the “Editor” tab on the flyout menu in the themes “Appearance” link. Be careful WP has no option (well it may … Read more
I had this happen once, and the solution was actually quite odd. This may or may not help. After going through all of what I thought was obvious, it ended up being a plugin conflict with a slider revolution add-on. I racked my brain for a couple of hours, then started deactivating plugins on a … Read more
Codex recommends adding HTTP authentication as additional layer of protection. Strictly speaking it doesn’t rely on WP and keeping things independent is not a bad idea in context of security.
I just tested this by adding the customfield ‘thumbnail’ to my post and it showed up in the dropdown. I’m using WordPress 3.2 (Multisite). What version are you using? Have you tried it without any plugins with the default theme? Does it work? As for your second question: WordPress has no global interface for editting … Read more