Customize your Wordpress site
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http://www.karenmcintyre.net/wp-admin(example of comment spam)
Install the Akismet plugin
Click on the plugins tab in your dashboard
How to protect against spam
Click “activate” on Akismet plugin
Click “Activate your Akismet account”
Click “Create a new Akismet key”
Click “Get an Akismet API key”
Click “I already have a WP account”
Click “Sign up” for “Personal” key
Slide $ to 0. Continue.
Copy API key
In WP, go to Plugins Akismet
Enter key. Save.
Auto delete old spam comments
Two ways to create a menu and order your menu items 1. Go to Appearance Menu
◦ Create a new menu (give it a name)◦ Drag items to menu (can be pages or categories)◦ Drag menu items to rearrange their order
2. Go to Pages◦ Add an “order” number to each page
Click on the page you want to display first
Give it an “order” number of 1
Assign each one a subsequent number Update Refresh your site Your nav items should now be in the order
you assigned them
Go to each of your other pages
Log into Fetch
Go to webapps portfoliowp wpcontent themes
Create a new folder called “themename-child”
Creating a child theme to edit css
Create a style.css file in Komodo Edit ◦ You know you need to name it style.css because
that’s what the theme’s original css stylesheet is named (as displayed in Appearance Editor)
Copy the comment code from the top of the style.css file in your Wordpress dashboard, and paste it into your new style.css file
Creating a child theme cont’d
Add a comment line called “Template” and call it whatever your theme folder is named in Fetch (in this case, twentyfourteen)
Creating a child theme cont’d
Add a line of code below the comment: @import url (“../twentyfourteen/style.css”);◦ Be sure to replace “twentyfourteen/style.css” with your
theme name and css file name.◦ This tells the browser to use all the styles from the
original theme plus any new styles we add to this new style.css file
Creating a child theme cont’d
Put your new style.css file into the child theme folder you created in Fetch
Back in your Wordpress dashboard, go to Appearance Themes◦ You should see your new child theme
Activate your new child theme
Creating a child theme cont’d
Add a style to your new style.css file◦ Update the file in Fetch◦ Refresh your website to make sure your style
commands work
You will now add all of your new styles to this file to customize your website
Testing your new child theme
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