Typical Website

Checklist — or Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a WordPress Site

From Smashing Magazine

Pages

Create a home page. Create a page titled "Blog" but don't give it any content. Then fill-out this form.

Protection from Bad Guys

A solution some people use is a combination of CloudFlare, Bad Behavior, and Akismet or Antispam Bee. I will be trying just CloudFlare and Antispam Bee on Sophia's Spirit.

Header Image Size

If you want to change the default size of the header image, change these two lines in functions.php.

 define( 'HEADER_IMAGE_WIDTH', apply_filters( 'twentyeleven_header_image_width', 1000 ) );
 define( 'HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT', apply_filters( 'twentyeleven_header_image_height', 288 ) );

Sticky Posts

Convert a regular post to a “sticky post” by doing a “quick edit” on it and then choosing sticky post; or do a regular (full) edit and then click the Visibility link to reveal the stick post option.

Moving Site to a Different Domain Name

The process for moving a WordPress site from one web hosting company to another can be achieved by simply moving all the PHP and image files, the database, then a find/replace on the domain name. The detailed steps are listed here.

  1. Backup all the site files. I am using Dreamweaver to copy all the files on the old site to my local machine.
  2. Backup the MySQL database. I use Sequel Pro to do this.
  3. Upload the site to the new host.
  4. Upload the database to the new host.
  5. Edit the wp-config.php file with the new database connection information.
  6. Edit the *_users table if necessary (it is OK to change the user_login name)
  7. Run the Find/Replace script from Safe Search and Replace on Database with Serialized Data v2.0.0. A copy of the script can also be found on my server.