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Growing a website – day 4

Reading lots of the WordPress lessons and finding out how to do a few things as I go.  I’ve now made my Links page work by use of templates, enabled inclusion of email address without typing it in and discovered how to split a post. Downloaded a Plugin – safeInclude,...

Growing a website – day 3

If you’ve been following this progress, you’ll have seen that I have been changing the “theme” of the website frequently.  This is to try out different looks and see how easy it is decide which theme is the most comprehensive to use as a basis for my “typical” website...

Growing a website – day 2

Next I want to make the pages look a little more like a typical website and less like a blog.  To do this, I first need to find my way around WordPress a bit more. I want to get rid of Comments as a general rule.  Go into Options…Discussion… and...

Extra Security

I like to keep my database name, username etc in a special secure place, not in the standard configuration file. So I’m going to make those changes next (details not published of course but in my personal notes!) This has not proved to be as simple as it should. ...

Displaying Blog in the Root Directory

It’s neat to keep all of the WordPress files in their own directory.  In particular, it adds to security to store the files in an unexpectedly named subdirectory (not wordpress but something a hacker is unlikely to guess).  However you might actually want the pages to...