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Theme Preview For Wordpress

Since the wordpress 2.6 upgrade came out, which allowed you to preview your themes before you applied them, i could not get this feature to work. Whenever i clicked to preview a new theme it would just show my site and the theme that was already on my site, this was annoying i wasn’t able to see how the new theme would look on my website. I wanted to be able to preview it so that if it didn’t work properly it would not effect the appearance of the site.

After a while i began searching on the internet to see if this happened to anybody else and it has happened to a few, but there was no answer on how to fix this so that the theme preview section would work.

A few days ago i was editing another site of mine when i wanted to preview loads of different theme’s so the quickest way would be to use the wordpress theme previewer however it would not work so i had to apply each theme which takes longer. So i got bored of continuously applying and reapplying the different themes so i went around the wordpress setting’s trying to find a way to fix the theme preview section.

And success i managed to find out how to fix it, if you go into the general setting’s in wordpress there is two boxes one says: WordPress address (URL) and the other says: Blog address (URL). I found that if you change the two of these website addresses to be the same then the theme previewer would work perfectly, it is strange but i dont know why it wouldn’t work if they are different, but i am just happy i now have that feature working.

Create your wordpress blog offline

How many times have you made changes to your website that might not work that could cause an inconvenience to anybody that is trying to view your website? Well if you are using wordpress you usually edit your website online, and as soon as you save it the changes will take effect on your live website, this can be a nightmare because it could mess up the appearance of your website and cause your visitors to become confused on where everything is.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply test these changes before putting them into action on the live web for everyone to see. Well now you can, i was looking around the internet a few days ago and found out a way of installing wordpress locally on your own computer, this means you can make as many changes as you want to your website and it will not effect your live website, therefore making the ease of visitors to your site more comfortable, then when you are ready you can simply upload your changes to your live website.

Ok so in order to setup wordpress locally on your computer this is what you have to do:

1. First download the latest version of wordpress, here
2. Then go here and download XAMPP Lite
3. When the download is complete extract it to the root of your hard-drive e.g: C:\
4. When the extraction is complete go to C:\xampplite and click on setup_xampp.bat
5. Then click on xampp-control and start Apache and Mysql
6. Then open up your browser and go to http://localhost/ then choose your preferred language on the left column
7. Then click phpMyAdmin from the tools section in the left column
8. type: wordpress into the create new database section then select utf8_unicode_ci then click create, that is the XAMPP setup complete now
9. Unzip the wordpress folder you downloaded into the folder: C:\xampplite\htdocs
10. Then browse to the folder wordpress in C:\xampplite\htdocs then you should see a file called wp-config-sample.php open it up in a text editor such as notepad or textpad then replace the default values with these:
    

    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
    define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
    define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

11. Then save the file as wp-config.php in the same folder as wp-config-sample.php
12. Then open your browser and type in http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
    Then follow the instructions and that’s it enjoy!

Have a look at the video below, i made it to show you how to do the above in case you had trouble doing it, i added some music so it wont seem so long!

Original instructions source: Geeksaresexy

Farewell To Wordpress!

I have just begun designing a new website layout for this website. I decided I would use basic html and adding some spry effects. This site will soon no longer depend on wordpress. I find that wordpress is great but I prefer to have the complete freedom of coding html myself. I will definitely miss all the great plugins that are so accessible to wordpress, but that’s not to say they are not available for html, they are but they are just harder to implement.

Wordpress will remain on this server for the next while as I intend on making a complete revamp to this site and by doing that it will take a long time.

Exams almost over

All this week I have been doing my summer exams in college. I have to say so far I have breezed through them with little trouble, so far I have done programming, math’s and databases. All I have left to do now is a Computer Systems test which is tomorrow, and I think I should do allright in it, as far as I can remember I have almost got enough to pass so hopefully the test won’t be too difficult tomorrow.

Anyway on another note I have decided that this summer I will try to make my own wordpress theme for this website, I like to do website designing and I am studying it at college also. I know a fair amount of html and css so that will allow me to understand a fair bit of what I need to do for the wordpress theme. I have been looking up how and what I need to do to make a wordpress theme on the internet and it does look doable, but I am sure I will run into some complications along the way, but no doubt I will be able to find the solution somewhere on the web.