{"id":150,"date":"2013-03-09T00:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/wp\/?p=150"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:28:19","slug":"my-introduction-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"My Introduction to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a recent visit with my mum and her husband I was discussing a website that they are involved with for the Southern Highlands University of the Third Age (U3A) http:\/\/sohiu3a.org.au<\/a>. He mentioned that the site is managed using wordpress which I had only ever heard of in respect to the WordPress.com<\/a> site. A quick bit of research led me to WordPress.Org<\/a> and suggested that I’d be very interested.<\/p>\n

All I can say since then is that I’ve been very impressed. The download and install via my hosting company was incredibly painless using Softaculous, and getting some basic content up, customising a child template based on the default “twentytwelve” that it ships with was rather simple. Even getting some of my existing PHP code to work as a custom page and connect to a pre-existing database was relatively simple.<\/p>\n

For further information on how to setup a child them and customise it within WordPress use the more link below.<\/p>\n

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Setting up a Child Theme<\/h3>\n

A child theme is the simplest way to make some customisations to the behaviour of a WordPress site without having to worry about losing your changes in a future upgrade of your theme. The basics are very simple:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a directory for your new Child Theme in the “themes” directory of your wordpress installation. This is likely www\/wp_content\/themes<\/code>.<\/li>\n
  2. Create or copy a properly formatted “styles.css” in this directory.\u00a0 The simplest way to do this is to copy and paste the following code into this file:\/*
    \nTheme Name: Nublue
    \nTheme URI: http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/
    \nDescription: Child theme based on Twenty Twelve for nublue.com customisations
    \nAuthor: James McMahon
    \nAuthor URI: http:\/\/harnv.nublue.com\/about\/
    \nTemplate: twentytwelve
    \nVersion: 0.1.0
    \n*\/<\/code><\/code>@import url(“..\/twentytwelve\/style.css”);<\/li>\n
  3. Update the comments in the lines above to reflect your details.<\/li>\n
  4. Note that the @import statement is important so that you inherit all the styles that are part of your parent theme.<\/li>\n
  5. Start customising your theme by adding custom CSS elements, or creating new page templates for use with existing or new scripts, forms etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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