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Excerpts from MGDP2060.

WEEK SIX:

This exercise demonstrates [[WordPress child theme|WordPress child themes]].

Do this by next week.

== Select a parent theme ==

Your choice. Pick a theme interests you.

== Create a child theme ==

Create a new folder for your child theme. Your choice of folder name.

== Make some style changes ==

Make some style changes in your child theme which override styles from the parent theme.

== Finishing up ==

If you are using a classroom workstation, be sure to back up the two critical MAMP folders.

In your FTP folder, create a subfolder named <code>child-template-exercise</code>. Use this folder to store copies of these two folders (for instructor review)

* Your child template folder
* The parent template folder

== Reading ==

Textbook reading for next week:

* [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]

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	* [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]		* [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]
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		+	THE REAL WEEK SIX:
		+
		+
		+
		+	Reading for this week:
		+
		+	* [[Chapter Thirteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]
		+
		+	Reading for next week:
		+
		+	* [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]
		+
		+	Week Six Exercises:
		+
		+	* [[Week Six Exercises (MGDP2060)]]
		+
		+	== In the News ==
		+
		+	* [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rtlz.nl%2Falgemeen%2Fbinnenland%2Fom-uber-mogelijk-criminele-organisatie&edit-text= Uber possible criminal organization] - Google Translation from Dutch to English
		+
		+	== MAMP on classroom workstations ==
		+
		+	MAMP has been re-installed on all classroom workstations, with a [[plain vanilla]] installation of WordPress.
		+
		+	Because of DeepFreeze, all workstations are returned to plain vanilla overnight.
		+
		+	In order to build up your work from week to week, you will need to:
		+
		+	* At the end of your working session, copy your work from the workstation to a USB drive or other external device
		+	* At the beginning of your next session, copy your work from your USB drive to the workstation.
		+
		+	You must use the same workstation. This does not work across workstations.
		+
		+	There are two folder you must back up and restore:
		+
		+	* <code>htdocs</code>
		+	* <code>mysql</code>
		+
		+	Screenshots:
		+
		+	Opening the <code>htdocs</code> folder from MAMP:
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/mamp-open-htdocs-folder.png
		+
		+	The button:
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/map-open-folder-button.png
		+
		+	The folder is open:
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/mamp-with-htdocs-folder.png
		+
		+	The <code>mysql</code> folder:
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/mamp-mysql.png
		+	If you are doing all your work on your own computers, and not using the classroom workstations, this does not apply.
		+
		+	MAMP admin page (note the phpMyAdmin link):
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/MAMP-installed.png
		+
		+	== MAMP admin page ==
		+
		+	In the plain vanilla installation of MAMP, the home page redirects here:
		+
		+	http://localhost:8888/MAMP/index.php
		+
		+	== MAMP and phpMyAdmin ==
		+
		+	http://localhost:8888/MAMP/index.php?page=phpmyadmin&language=English
		+	== WordPress administration screens ==
		+
		+	See [https://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels Administration screens]
		+
		+	== WordPress themes ==
		+
		+	See [[WordPress theme]].
		+
		+	== WordPress templates ==
		+
		+	See [[WordPress template]].
		+
		+	== WordPress child themes ==
		+
		+	Update: do not bother creating a child theme from scratch. Instead, use this plugin:
		+
		+	* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/one-click-child-theme/ One-click child theme]
		+
		+	See [[WordPress child theme\|WordPress child themes]]

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		+	WEEK TWO:
		+
		+
		+	== FTP ==
		+
		+	* [[File Transfer Protocol]]
		+	* [[FTP client]]
		+	* [[Getting started with FTP]]
		+	* Login credentials - see [[Password]]
		+
		+	== WordPress ==
		+
		+	* [[WordPress]] (discuss first three chapters of book)
		+
		+	== Exercises ==
		+
		+	See [[Week Two Exercises (MGDP2060)]].
		+
		+	== Reading for next week ==
		+
		+	=== Online reading ===
		+
		+	Browse this week's vocabulary items -- essentially all of the links on this page.
		+
		+	Familiarize yourself with terms and basic principles.
		+
		+	Pay special atention to these topics and their immediately related topics:
		+
		+	** [[Client-server model]]
		+	** [[Client (computing)]]
		+	** [[Server (computing)]]
		+	** [[Web template system]]
		+
		+	=== Book reading ===
		+
		+	...
		+

	WEEK FIVE:		WEEK FIVE:

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		+	WEEK FIVE:
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		+	* '''Topics''': [[Chapter Five (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]]
		+	* '''Exercises''': [[Week Five Exercises (MGDP2060)]]
		+	* '''Reading''':
		+	** For next week: [[Chapter Thirteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)\|Chapter 13 - Child Themes]]
		+	** For week after: [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)\|Chapter 14 - Custom Themes]]
		+
		+	== WordPress databases gone ==
		+
		+	WordPress databases from last week were wiped by DeepFreeze.
		+
		+	Instructor will have WordPress pre-installed on all workstations for next week.
		+
		+	== In the News ==
		+
		+	=== Copyright bots ===
		+
		+	* [http://boingboing.net/2015/09/08/inept-copyright-bot-sends-2600.html Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches] @ [[BoingBoing]]
		+
		+	See [[Bot\|Bots]].
		+
		+	=== Bounty for iPhone Hacks ===
		+
		+	* [http://www.wired.com/2015/09/spy-agency-contractor-puts-1m-bounty-iphone-hack/ Spy Agency Contractor Puts Out a $1M Bounty for an iPhone Hack] @ Wired.com
		+
		+	== Fingerprints stolen ==
		+
		+	* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2015/09/23/opm-now-says-more-than-five-million-fingerprints-compromised-in-breaches/ OPM says 5.6 million fingerprints stolen in cyberattack]
		+
		+	=== IPFS: replacement for HTTP ===
		+
		+	* [https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.html HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web] - "[[Neocities]] has collaborated with [[Protocol Labs]] to become the first major site to implement IPFS in production. Starting today, all Neocities web sites are available for viewing, archiving, and hosting by any IPFS node in the world. "
		+	** See [https://ipfs.io/ ipfs.io]
		+
		+	Wikipedia:
		+
		+	* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System InterPlanetary File System]
		+	** "InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), also called "The Permanent Web", is a hypermedia distribution protocol, addressed by content and identities. IPFS enables the creation of completely distributed applications. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open."
		+
		+	== Comic of the Week ==
		+
		+	Source: [http://xkcd.com/1579/ Tech Loops] @ [[xkcd]]
		+
		+	http://karljones.com/karljones.com/images/wiki/tech_loops.png
		+
		+	== Libraries ==
		+
		+	Note the multiple instances of "[[Library (computing)\|Library]]". This is a bad sign.
		+
		+	Using libraries is like grinding fresh pepper on your food: a little tastes good, but a lot tastes bad.
		+
		+	== Solution stacks ==
		+
		+	[[Solution stack\|Solution stacks]] can be part of problem, because a "stack" is made up two or more separate applications.
		+
		+	The purpose of the stack is to "bundle up" the separate applications into a single application, the stack.
		+
		+	Solution stacks are useful, powerful tools.
		+
		+	But they add [[complexity]] -- and where you have complexity, you have side-effects, synergies, unpredictability, vulnerability.
		+
		+	== LAMP architecture ==
		+
		+	In [[computer science]], ''architecture'' is a broad term for internal [[structure]].
		+
		+	For a diagram of the LAMP, which also represents the [[client-server model]], see [[LAMP_(software_bundle)#LAMP_architecture LAMP architecture]].
		+
		+
		+	== Chapter Five: Themes and Templates ==
		+
		+	See [[Chapter Five (WordPress: The Missing Manual)]].
		+
		+
		+	=== Theme files ===
		+
		+	Each theme must contain two specific files:
		+
		+	* <code>style.css</code> - the stylesheet for this Theme
		+	* <code>index.php</code> - the primary Template file
		+
		+	== Theme Stylesheets ==
		+
		+	Each Theme requires a stylesheet named <code>style.css</code>.
		+
		+	<code>style.css</code> functions like any other stylesheet, providing [[Cascading Style Sheets\|CSS] rules for the site.
		+
		+	But in addition, <code>style.css</code> contains information which WordPress uses to identify the stylesheet, and the folder which contains it, as WordPress Themes.
		+
		+	* The Theme information, which uses a standard format, goes inside a [[CSS comment block]].
		+
		+	WordPress can read the contents of the <code>style.css</code>, so it knows what Theme the stylesheet represents.
		+
		+	This happens on the web server, and has nothing to do with the web browsers. CSS comments are ignored by web browsers.
		+
		+	== Theme Templates ==
		+
		+	Templates are individual PHP files within a WordPress Theme.
		+
		+	Each theme must have a template named <code>index.php</code>.
		+
		+	* Other templates are optional, but commonly used.
		+
		+	Templates have specific file names, each of which handles a specific pages, or set of pages, within WordPress.
		+
		+	Template files are where you write the HTML and PHP which WordPress will display as web pages.
		+
		+	== include statement ==
		+
		+	include is a PHP statement which allows you to include one PHP page inside another page.
		+
		+	This technique is useful for assembling a single page from fragments.
		+
		+	See:
		+
		+	http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php
		+
		+	http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_includes.asp.
		+
		+	== Exercises ==
		+
		+	* [[Week Five Exercises (MGDP2060)]]
		+
		+	== Reading for next two weeks ==
		+
		+	Reading for next week: [[Chapter Thirteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)\|Chapter 13 - Child Themes]]
		+
		+	Reading for week after: [[Chapter Fourteen (WordPress: The Missing Manual)\|Chapter 14 - Custom Themes]]
		+

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