Troubleshooting and Customizing - WordCamp Miami 2013
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The document discusses customizing WordPress themes, troubleshooting issues, and importing/exporting content. Specifically, it covers customizing premium themes, making additional tweaks through CSS, HTML, and plugins, testing locally, dealing with errors by staying calm and using backups, disabling plugins and themes to isolate issues, and tools for importing and exporting content between WordPress sites in bulk or individually.
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- 1. Troubleshooting And Customizing: Importing/Exporting, Bulk Posting, Customizing Themes
- 3. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates So far you have… • Purchased a domain and selected hosting • Installed and explored WordPress • Learned about posts, pages, and comments • Learned basics of themes and plugins In this session… • Learn how to customize themes, import/export content, and troubleshoot common issues.
- 4. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing *Every need is different*
- 5. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing Premium/Configurable Themes • Likely to get you 90% of what you need • Great option for beginners • Little to no code knowledge needed • Not always a silver bullet
- 6. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Reading settings – SettingsReading
- 7. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Style tweaks • CSS or something else? • Plugins – Jetpack, Custom CSS Manager, CSS Plus • Child Themes - http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
- 8. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Beyond styles Learning HTML/CSS – Nettuts+ http://bit.ly/NviNfZ
- 9. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Beyond styles AppearanceEditor
- 10. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Beyond styles Theme structure wp-content/themes/awesome-theme Codex - Stepping Into Templates http://bit.ly/9yaPmi
- 11. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Beyond styles FTP • Software - FileZilla, Transmit, Cyberduck
- 12. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Customizing The remaining 10% Beyond styles Local testing • The ultimate way test theme customizations • Not easy :( • Bitnami - http://bitnami.com/stack/wordpress • Code editors – Sublime Text, Coda, Notepad++, Dreamweaver
- 13. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting *Oops*
- 14. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting Rule # 1, 2, 3, and 4 Stay Calm, Seriously
- 15. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting Rule # 5, 6, and 7 Backups • Backups from hosting • Plugins – VaultPress, BackupBuddy, BackWPup • Manual – FTP, phpMyAdmin
- 16. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting Different types of errors • Non critical – css, html, php warnings • Critical – white screen php errors • Super critical – locked out of WordPress
- 17. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting Isolation • What was the last action performed before receiving the error? • Plugin or theme updates?
- 18. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Troubleshooting Hands on • Disable plugins – wp-admin or FTP • Change theme – wp-admin or FTP • /wp-content/plugins/ • /wp-content/themes/ • Google
- 19. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Importing ToolsImport
- 20. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Importing/Exporting Migrate – WPWP • WordPress export • Data vs. files(media) • Manually • Files & database • BackupBuddy(Migration)
- 21. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Importing Bulk Import • CSV import plugins – CSV Importer, WP Ultimate CSV Importer
- 22. WCMIA 2013 - Troubleshooting And Customizing Myke Bates Takeaway • Never give up • Stay hungry • Learn by breaking/Break by learning
Editor's Notes
- #5: A quick disclaimer that everyone’s needs are differentAnd we will be covering basics
- #6: - Opinions on these options heavy themes- Places to buy themes already covered, maybe do a quick recap(WP, ThemeForest, Press75, MojoThemes, Elegant Themes, WooThemes)
- #7: Start off easyPowerful and forgettable setting
- #8: - When theme options don’t give you exactly what you need- Poll the room on comfort level of css,html,php- Explain the difference between style and actual code- About to get heavy
- #9: If you are serious about learning themes push to teach yourself html/css/php
- #10: - Not a recommended practice- Pain in the butt anyways
- #11: Need to at least slightly understand theme structure
- #13: Perfect scenario is to have local mostly in syncLeads into troubleshooting
- #14: What happens when…
- #15: Best thing you can do for yourself
- #16: The next best thing you can do for yourself
- #17: - Notalways your fault.- Do not talk about disabling yet
- #19: End Troubleshooting
- #20: Coming from something else OR even WP to WP
- #21: From one WP site to another – Migrating contentFew different methods
- #22: Products, events – possibly from another source