Week Four Exercises (MGDP2060)

This article contains exercises for Week Four (MGDP2060).

Do these tasks on your classroom workstation. (You may also do this on your laptop or other device.)

Book reading for next week: Chapter Five.

Create exercise folder

In your local root folder, create a folder named wordpress.

• All of the WordPress files go in this folder
• Do not non-WordPress files in this folder

Download WordPress

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Move files to exercise folder

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Create database using phpMyAdmin

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Edit WordPress config file

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Browse configuration page

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Installation is complete. Wordpress is ready for use.

Browse website

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• http://localhost/wordpress - Example, not working link -- enter the URL in browser address bar

Manage website

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• http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin - Log in to WordPress admin console (example, not working link)

Change Themes

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Update home page

On your Home page, make a link to your WordPress page. Like this:

<a href="./wordpress">Week Four: WordPress</a>

<a href="/instructor/wordpress">Week Four: WordPress</a>

<a href="http://htcwebcreative.com/instructor/wordpress/index.php">Week Four: WordPress</a>

You are free to change "Week Four: WordPress" to something equivalent.

• This is standard classroom style practice: you may change the wording, so long as:
  • The meaning is the same
  • Your style is consistent

Link from WordPress to Home page?

This is not an exercise, but a topic of inquiry.

How would you make a link from your WordPress page to your Home Page?

Take WordPress Files With You

On your jump drive.