The WordPress Dashboard
But there are some drawbacks.
A CMS is a Content Management System.
CMSes let you manage a website from top-to-bottom with a friendly interface.
By far, the most common CMS is WordPress.
Go to
http://users.themarketingcenter.com/[USERNAME]/wordpress
It should redirect to
http://users.themarketingcenter.com/[USERNAME]/wp-admin/setup-config.php
Select English and click Continue. Click Let's Go!.
Your next screen asks for a lot of information – save this somewhere!
Database Name – themarke_u_[USERNAME]
Username – [FROM SLACK]
Password – [FROM SLACK]
Database Host – localhost
Database Prefix – Whatever you want, but the default wp_ is fine.
Click Continue, then click Run the install
This sets up your actual site and your WordPress login. Please write this down as well!
Site Title – [YOUR NAME]
Username – [YOUR USERNAME]
Password – [YOUR PASSWORD]
Your Email – [YOUR FIRMIDABLE EMAIL]
Search Engine Visibility – Leave Unchecked
Click Install WordPress.
Click Log In.
Log in using your username and password.
Posts are single articles on a site. They’re basically blog entries.
Technically all content in WordPress is a “post,” and you can do a lot of cool things with posts.
Posts can be organized into Categories and Tags.
Your Media Library should be empty. Let’s fix that.
Go to your user page. Right-Click on your image > Save image as… and save it to your desktop.
Click Add New, then Select Files then select your image file.
It’ll then show in the library!
Pages are a type of post, but they’re not meant to change, and they’re meant to persist.
Most of our sites are built using pages.
Under “Sample Page” click Trash.
Then, Click Add New.
Under “Enter title here,” type Home
Visit your HTML page and View Source.
Then, copy everything in <div id="main">
Click the Text editor in WordPress.
Paste the code into the content box. You might want to clean up the indentation.
Click Publish.
You’ll see your image might not work.
Delete the img tag.
Click Add Media and select your image.
Click Insert into page.
Remove the width, height and class attributes. Remove the self-closing slash in the tag.
Remove the pixel size in the filename to use the right image. Replace the alt attribute with your name.
Navigate to Settings > Reading
Under “Front page displays” select A static page.
Under “Front page” select Home.
Click Save changes.
That’s OK, but it’s not what you designed!
In your FTP, go to wp-content/themes
Right-Click on the Remote Site Current Directory pane > Create New Directory and Enter It
Name your directory your username.
Right-Click on the Remote Site Current Directory pane > Create New File
Name it index.php
Right-Click on the Remote Site Current Directory pane > Create New File
Name it style.css
/*
Theme Name: [YOUR THEME NAME]
Theme URI: http://firmidable.com
Author: [YOUR NAME]
Author URI: https://users.themarketingcenter.com/[USERNAME]
Description: This is my theme!
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: responsive
Text Domain:
This theme, like WordPress, is licensed under the GPL.
Use it to make something cool, have fun, and share what you've learned with others.
*/This is the easy part!
You can copy and paste your styles from your old site, and they’ll work perfectly!
You can get your stylesheet quickly by viewing source.
Don’t forget to save!
Navigate to Appearance > Themes.
Click Activate under your theme.
But look at your site! It’s blank!
There are three parts to a fully-working index.php:
the loopwp_head()wp_footer() <head>
<title>About Me</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css.css">
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
The wp_head() function ties a lot of WordPress magic to the <head> section of the site.
To start, the easiest way to transfer from an static HTML page to a WordPress theme is to copy and paste the HTML into your index.php
When starting from an existing HTML page, this makes sure you have the right skeleton.
As always — don’t forget to save!