liammailley / idm250

IDM250: Content Management Systems

Overview

• Course Syllabus

Initial Setup

Installing WordPress

• WordPress needs a database to store all website data, so you will need to create a database before we install WordPress. Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as it sounds.
• Create a Database for your current environment. For example, local_idm250_wp
• Download the latest version of WP from wordpress.org
• First you need to visit the WordPress.org website to download a copy of WordPress. After downloading the file, you need to unzip it.

Next, copy the wordpress folder inside and paste it into your servers root folder.

• Go to http://{your-local-domain-here}/wp-admin

Getting Started Locally

Using MAMP like services

Tutorial here

Using Docker

• Run cp env.example .env
• Run cp docker-compose.example.yml docker-compose.yml
• Fill out your new .env and docker-compose.yml
• Run docker-compose up -d

Deploying your theme

• Once you get WP installed on your server, you should only need to transfer your theme files onto your server.