THREE Ways to install WordPress themes and plugins
To install WordPress themes and plugins is a very simple task. There are almost three ways or methods of installing a plugin or theme.
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How to Install WordPress In a Local Environment (XAMPP, WAMP etc.)
When starting your WordPress development for the first time, it’s not advisable to start doing so live, especially if you are in Nigeria. The data rates in this part of the world are very high.
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How to set up local WordPress Development Environment
WordPress like other website development software requires a server to function. The popular ones out there are XAMPP & WAMP for windows and LAMPP for Linux. In this tutorial I will walk you through installing XAMPP for windows. The steps are almost similar for both so whichever you are installing you are good. Download the…
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Set your country code as default in Caldera forms?
Take for instance, we reside in Nigeria and sell our services to consumers here. So our phone number fields on our forms should naturally read +234 right? Exactly, follow these steps in this post. Please note it is not advisable to make edits to your theme files directly, always make edits to your child theme…
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How do you learn WordPress?
First, you need to know exactly what about WordPress you want to learn. Is it Self hosted WordPress or WordPress.com? Perhaps you should first ask yourself what you want to with WordPress? Whichever way you decide to go, it’s great to understand the basics. Now that Gutenberg is the future content editor for WordPress, we…
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How do you turn on comments in your WordPress site?
This is pretty easy right. But what if you log into your WordPress dashboard, and you go to settings, discussions, to turn it on, but still, your site is not displaying your comments box at all. What do you do? Check your current theme options. Yes you heard me right. I battled with this for…
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How do I check who’s visiting my WordPress.com site?
The WordPress.com stats page consist of nifty graphs, charts, and lists that show you how many visitors your site gets and from where. It also shows you what posts and pages are the most popular, and much more. The statistics page consist of the following; posting activities, most popular day and hour, all-time posts, views,…
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How Do I Change my Tagline and Title on my WordPress site
First what is a ‘tagline? This simply tells your site readers or visitors what your business is all about. As you can probably guess, your title is the name of your site. It’s how people identify your brand and how they search for you online. On the other hand, your tagline is a short statement similar to a subtitle or advertising slogan, often placed right underneath your title. It works…
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How do you set up a redirect to another page on your WordPress website?
While working on a charity website, i could not change the plugin’s donations form page url to my preferred word. I wanted to keep the page but redirect to another. A quick search and i stumbled on this guide from wpbeginner which totally fixed this headache for me with 3 clicks. Step #1: Download/install and…
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How do you create a custom page template in WordPress
This was one hell of a rabbit hole that took me hours due to no programming experience. However i simply followed the directions in this link and hurray i achieved what i wanted. Please note, after uploading the custompage.php file, i used the text editor in my cpanel file manager to add the codes, not…