TheWphosting Staff In this tutorial I will share step by step instructions for installing a wordpress theme on localhost computer.
We installed WordPress on a Windows machine using Xampp in this tutorial. We are going to pick from that WordPress installation and add a theme.
We are going to cover three ways of installing a WordPress theme;
Lets start.
WordPress is the world’s most popular tool for creating websites. It is capable of creating any style of website, from a simple blog to a full-featured business website. You can even use WordPress to create an online store.
If you are aspiring to be a developer, WordPress is one of the few content management systems that you will find yourself learning. Most people who have never built a site find it very easy to get started with WordPress since with WordPress, you do not necessarily need any coding or design skills to get a professional website. There are millions of freely as well as premium themes available for download. You can simply get such a theme and change the appearance and content to match your prefered website design.
In this tutorial, we are going to cover how to install WordPress on a Windows machine using Xampp. We will cover two major topic;
We recently shared this tutorial on how to create categories and subcategories in WordPress, what we did not tell you is that a new WordPress installation comes with a default category called Uncategorized that is used to categorize posts that you forget to assign a category to. Many WordPress beginners struggle with the idea of deleting this category and are often stuck on how to do that especially when they realize that it does not have a delete option. However, in this tutorial, we are going to show you how you can change the default category and/or rename it. We are going to cover the following;
There are situations when you can get locked out of the WordPress dashboard. There are several reasons why this happens, and most of them have different solutions. Some of the reasons that may lead to a person being locked out of WordPress dashboard are :
Gutenberg is a new editor for WordPress named after Johannes Gutenberg who invented the printing press over 500 years ago. The current WordPress editor requires the use of HTML and shortcodes to make things work the way we would like them to. The goal of the new Gutenberg editor is to simplify this especially for people new to WordPress. However, it is still at its beta phase, but will soon be replacing the classic editor as the default editor in WordPress.
By default, WordPress shows the posts page as the home page. This is the page that has your latest posts, shown in a reverse chronological order. However, website owners may prefer to show a static page or a splash page as the home page instead of showing the latest posts.
In this tutorial, we are going to discuss a step by step guide on how change your wordpress front page. We will set up a static page as your home page. I am going to assume that you have a WordPress website running and want to change your homepage.
One of the best ways to organize your content on a WordPress website is through the use of categories. Categories allow site visitors to browse through the website’s content by topic or a grouping rather than doing it chronologically. Before going further with this tutorial, it is important to note that categories are different from tags. Categories are used for grouping of posts on a WordPress website while tags are used for describing specific details of a post.
There are two ways through which you can create a category in WordPress. They include;
When comments are added to a WordPress post, they are arranged from the oldest to the newest by default. For example, let us look at this WordPress post. We have the oldest comment posted on July 3, 2015, at the top while the newest posted on February 21, 2018, at the time of writing this tutorial appears at the bottom. However, you can reverse this and have the comments showing with the newest at the top and the oldest at the bottom. In this post, I am going to show you how to have the newest comments displaying at the top.
You have created a blog on WordPress but do not have any posts to show to your target audience. How do you do that? Creating posts on WordPress is a simple thing for most people, but it can prove to be very difficult for beginners. In this tutorial, I am going to discuss a step by step guide on how to create a blog post. I will discuss various aspects of creating a blog post including;
WordPress is one of the best and easy to use content management systems we have today. It comes with a …