Working with WordPress - Importing Exporting Customizing and Troubleshooting

Working w/ WordPressImporting/Exporting, Customizing and

Troubleshooting

It’s me…

Jean FelismeWordPress Designer and Developer

@jfeliwebjean@bizdotsmedia.com

bizdotsmedia.co | jeanfelisme.com

You did it!!!!

DomainHosting

WordPressThemePlugin

...Now What?

The Good Stuff!

Before you start...

Things to Know...

● Basic Knowledge of HTML and CSS● Text Editor● Local Development | Development Site

www.mamp.info OR serverpress.com● A Cool Head● Backup Everything

Site Backup• Why you should backup?

• Manually Backup your site.

• Plugin to use to backup. (BackupBuddy)

• Content Backup (Import/Export)

Import/Export Content

Importing Types

From other siteso Tumblro Bloggero WordPres

s etc…

Import/Export Content

Export

Customizing

Walkthrough of...

• Reading Settings

• Appearance Editoro Theme Options CSS

Fields

• Child Theme

Customizing

Child Theme

Child Theme Folder○ style.css

Reading settings...

Appearance Editor

Troubleshooting

Stay Calm

What was the last action performed before receiving the

error?

Check Backups

Ohh Noo!

Troubleshooting

Syntax ErrorWhy?●Plugin Update●Code Snippets●Memory Limit

The FixFTP to file

○ rename plugin○ undo change file

Troubleshooting

Syntax Error

Troubleshooting

White Screen of DeathWhy?

Most times its an exhausted the memory limit

• Cause by Plugin(s)

• Cause by Theme

• Cause by Web Host

Troubleshooting

Demo of fixing the White Screen of Death

●Disable Plugins●Switch to Default Theme

○ Increase Memory limits○ Going even farther

■ WP_Debug■ PHP.INI file

ResourcesWordPress Codex (codex.wordpress.org)

WordPress Forums (wordpress.org/support/)

WPBeginner (www.wpbeginner.com)

Google Search (google.com)

StackOverflow WordPress (wordpress.stackexchange.com)

Questions?

email: jean@BizDotsMedia.com

twitter: @jfeliweb

websites: BizDotsMedia.co | JeanFelisme.com