1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:05,880 Now we'll delve back into your local development environment and check out the way Wordpress is installed 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,480 by default in a standard WordPress installation. 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:14,810 There are several default themes present with the newest one activated and a couple of standard plug 4 00:00:14,810 --> 00:00:18,910 ins as well plus the default settings are always set the same. 5 00:00:18,980 --> 00:00:24,920 And there are a few that should be changed to use best practices in this video. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:29,810 You'll learn what settings to change as soon as you install WordPress installation and why these changes 7 00:00:29,810 --> 00:00:30,680 are important. 8 00:00:30,980 --> 00:00:39,400 Let's go first let's get set up with our local WordPress installation that we set up in the previous 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:40,960 video. 10 00:00:41,050 --> 00:00:47,590 I'm going to start map and it's already started so I can see the Apache server and the MiSeq will server 11 00:00:47,590 --> 00:00:53,500 are running and I'm going to open preferences just to make sure I know where I need to go and click 12 00:00:53,500 --> 00:01:01,090 the web server tab and I can see that under-sea colon H.T. docs under the map folder is where I have 13 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:09,930 my document root and that tells me that under localhost each of my folder names that I had set up with 14 00:01:09,930 --> 00:01:13,970 a WordPress installation will be the name of my web site. 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:19,160 If you remember I set up WP of course one as my wordpress Web site. 16 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:28,870 But let's open windows explorer and if I look under C colon and in the map folder under H.T. docs you 17 00:01:28,870 --> 00:01:33,420 can see that I've got these different WordPress installations present. 18 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:39,130 If you open windows explorer you can go and see which folders you have and what are their names and 19 00:01:39,130 --> 00:01:45,730 then go back to your browser and type the name of one of the folders and hit return and it'll load your 20 00:01:45,730 --> 00:01:49,120 Web site as long as map is running. 21 00:01:49,190 --> 00:01:56,960 Now in the default installation the maildir sidebar information is down here on the right hand side 22 00:01:57,210 --> 00:02:03,920 and there is a log in button I'll usually right click on that and click Open link in New Tab and I already 23 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:12,080 have a tab open here and I can log in with the username that I had set up before and password. 24 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:18,530 So now I'm logged in to my fresh WordPress installation that has all the defaults set up and I'm now 25 00:02:18,530 --> 00:02:20,140 on the internet. 26 00:02:20,310 --> 00:02:26,580 I'm using WordPress in a local environment and it's going to be the fastest setup for creating new sites 27 00:02:26,850 --> 00:02:28,380 and managing my coursework. 28 00:02:29,740 --> 00:02:37,140 Go ahead and navigate to your own WordPress installation and we'll get started looking at the defaults. 29 00:02:37,180 --> 00:02:43,710 First of all if you open the website itself you can see that this is the 2016 theme. 30 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,910 Let's go back to the tab. 31 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:48,620 Open up appearance and themes. 32 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:53,810 And look let's look at which themes come with wordpress at this point. 33 00:02:53,860 --> 00:02:57,820 One is called 20:16 it tells me that it's the active theme. 34 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:01,710 The next one is 2015 and 2014. 35 00:03:02,050 --> 00:03:08,050 If you click each of the theme details buttons you can look at what themes the current theme. 36 00:03:08,050 --> 00:03:13,400 Some information about the theme how it's tagged and the image of the theme. 37 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:19,230 There's a few control buttons here but I don't usually use these control buttons to customize my websites. 38 00:03:19,270 --> 00:03:25,140 I'll use the ones that are over here under appearance. 39 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:30,600 You can click the small arrow at the top left to go through the themes that are installed in your workplace 40 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:36,910 installation and look at that actual traits for each one of them. 41 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:43,360 And the X closes that modal window 42 00:03:47,650 --> 00:03:55,630 if you rollover plugins and then click install plugins you can see that WordPress ships with two plugins 43 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,170 already installed. 44 00:03:57,190 --> 00:04:03,700 Now they're not activated but they are installed Ekis meant prevents comment spam and hello Dolly is 45 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:08,950 a fun plugin created by one of the founders of Wordpress Matt Mullen awake. 46 00:04:09,250 --> 00:04:14,000 And if we activate the Hello Dolly plug in you can see that it's very simple. 47 00:04:14,140 --> 00:04:21,070 What it does is it gives you a quote from the Hello Dolly musical in the top of your dashboard. 48 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:23,020 Every time you go to a different page 49 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,590 Now this isn't a plug in. 50 00:04:28,590 --> 00:04:31,040 That would be appropriate for your client. 51 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:40,130 You might go into the plug ins list which I often do and I delete that plug in I like to keep my dashboard 52 00:04:40,130 --> 00:04:42,700 simple and understandable for my clients. 53 00:04:42,740 --> 00:04:50,090 So once it's not activated you can hit delete and go ahead and delete the files. 54 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,360 And then that plug it won't be in your play list anymore. 55 00:04:56,230 --> 00:05:02,100 X-Men is a great plug in to activate once you've got your site set up and configured because if you 56 00:05:02,100 --> 00:05:10,650 have comments enabled for posts on the website it will prevent a lot of spam from coming in and spamming 57 00:05:10,650 --> 00:05:14,120 and emailing the managers and the administrators of the site. 58 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:20,110 For now all on building sites I just keep it in activated. 59 00:05:20,210 --> 00:05:27,620 Now if I go up and roll over users and look at your profile you can see some information about your 60 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:34,670 user account and down a few items down is the word toolbar and the checkbox show toolbar. 61 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:42,680 When viewing site now by default WordPress has this checkbox enabled and if you go over to the Web site 62 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:48,830 in another tab you can see that the toolbar across the top is a place that you can use to get to the 63 00:05:48,830 --> 00:05:55,490 dashboard and other places to manage your site as well as your user profile and log in and log out button 64 00:05:55,520 --> 00:06:02,120 over here a member of the public wouldn't be seeing this toolbar so I prefer to go back and uncheck 65 00:06:02,150 --> 00:06:03,830 the toolbar box. 66 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,740 Update my profile. 67 00:06:05,990 --> 00:06:13,350 And then because I work between two tabs in my browser I can refresh the page and that toolbar disappears. 68 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:16,940 Thereby showing me the way the site would look to the general public. 69 00:06:19,290 --> 00:06:25,470 Back in the dashboard if you click Settings general or just the Settings button you'll open the general 70 00:06:25,470 --> 00:06:30,750 settings tab and you'll see a few settings that you've made when you set up the Web site. 71 00:06:30,750 --> 00:06:37,320 Initially the site title of course but then the tagline is a default tagline just on the wordpress site 72 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,850 you might change that to something more appropriate for your client. 73 00:06:40,950 --> 00:06:46,950 The WordPress address of the site you are LDS are probably the same as what was set up when you were 74 00:06:46,950 --> 00:06:51,920 doing your Wordpress installation your email address from when you set up the Wordpress installation. 75 00:06:51,930 --> 00:06:53,750 All these are part of the defaults. 76 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:01,110 And as we roll down membership means that you can have people register as a user on the site and when 77 00:07:01,110 --> 00:07:06,480 they register what type of user are they going to be a subscriber or a number of different users that 78 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:13,230 will go through as we go into making membership sites in the future I'll usually leave this unchecked 79 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,300 for a regular web site for a client. 80 00:07:17,310 --> 00:07:25,290 I will change the time zone and not only the UTC times with the numbers but there are also time zones 81 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,480 in different cities across the world. 82 00:07:28,530 --> 00:07:34,470 You can just type the first few letters of the largest city around and see if that is the same time 83 00:07:34,470 --> 00:07:35,570 zone as yours. 84 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:41,070 Denver is the one for me and I choose a date format a time format that fits with my country or my clients 85 00:07:41,070 --> 00:07:43,710 country and how I'd like to start the week. 86 00:07:43,770 --> 00:07:46,910 And the language and let's save our changes. 87 00:07:50,690 --> 00:07:56,050 When you say changes in wordpress you'll usually get an administrator message with a green bar here. 88 00:07:56,110 --> 00:07:58,290 This one says settings saved. 89 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,840 You can always click the red X at the right side to close those messages. 90 00:08:04,610 --> 00:08:06,520 Just a few more settings to go through. 91 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:13,370 If we check the writing settings page you'll see that as you make a post if you're doing a blog as a 92 00:08:13,370 --> 00:08:19,700 part of your site if you have categories you can make a default post category post format. 93 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:25,880 We'll talk about the later video but in this theme they enable a number of different post formats whether 94 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:33,550 it's going to be an image potentially a video a status or a quote or a standard post format. 95 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:36,200 And then you can post via e-mail. 96 00:08:36,340 --> 00:08:43,180 Meaning you can make an email address and when that e-mail address receives an email from you it will 97 00:08:43,180 --> 00:08:51,260 make a post in the blog section of the Web site update services means when you publish a new post it 98 00:08:51,260 --> 00:08:57,130 will enable the notification of a service like ping or magic dot com. 99 00:08:57,170 --> 00:09:03,740 And this is good for search engine optimization and notifying Web sites around the Internet that you 100 00:09:03,740 --> 00:09:04,580 have a new post 101 00:09:07,250 --> 00:09:16,370 under reading this is a setting's page that controls how your website visitors will approach your website. 102 00:09:16,970 --> 00:09:24,770 Your latest posts or a static page and what I'm going to do right now is select a sample the front page 103 00:09:24,770 --> 00:09:28,120 which is going to be a page that's already built within the Web site. 104 00:09:28,130 --> 00:09:33,200 It's one of the default pages called sambil page and I'm going to change that from your local Post's 105 00:09:34,370 --> 00:09:36,260 in a subsequent video. 106 00:09:36,260 --> 00:09:41,930 We're going to be learning how to configure a Web site for a client using this theme and we'll be creating 107 00:09:41,930 --> 00:09:47,380 a static page as the front page in order to have that Web site be appropriate for the client. 108 00:09:48,580 --> 00:09:54,730 There's a few blog settings pages and I usually use these at their defaults and then while I'm building 109 00:09:54,730 --> 00:10:00,850 a site I'll usually discourage the search engines from indexing the site if it's on my Live hosting 110 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:01,780 company. 111 00:10:01,780 --> 00:10:07,210 I don't have to have that checked if it's locally inside my own computer because no one can access it 112 00:10:07,210 --> 00:10:15,270 through the internet but I click save changes for my front page display settings discussion has to do 113 00:10:15,270 --> 00:10:16,390 with commenting. 114 00:10:16,830 --> 00:10:20,940 And there's a few settings you can read through here if you're going to have a blog section on your 115 00:10:20,940 --> 00:10:25,430 client's Web site and you can control the commenting system. 116 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:33,260 Under media depending on what theme you are using these are the standard image sizes that get created 117 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:38,470 when you upload a photo or an image to the media library. 118 00:10:38,510 --> 00:10:45,830 I usually leave these at their defaults unless I'm looking to match my column with or the body text 119 00:10:45,830 --> 00:10:48,380 with inside of posts and pages. 120 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:55,130 And at that time I might change this to the appropriate size so that every time I upload an image it'll 121 00:10:55,130 --> 00:11:02,390 make a nice size image for that column with in terms of the way you organize your files inside the media 122 00:11:02,390 --> 00:11:03,380 library. 123 00:11:03,380 --> 00:11:07,640 You can organize them into different folders that have months and years. 124 00:11:07,820 --> 00:11:15,980 Or you can leave all of your images inside of the media library which is a folder called uploads and 125 00:11:15,980 --> 00:11:17,870 depends what you're trying to do with your clients. 126 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:25,520 But oftentimes I will just uncheck the organize my uploads box as I'm building the site and potentially 127 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:30,410 if that client wants to have a blog and they're going to be uploading images relative to different dates 128 00:11:30,410 --> 00:11:33,740 and posts I'll recheck that for future uploads. 129 00:11:34,630 --> 00:11:39,540 Lastly permalink are the you are Elle's that your site is using now. 130 00:11:39,550 --> 00:11:45,380 It's very important actually that you check an appropriate box right here. 131 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:51,190 Post name is currently the most popular permalink setting for Wordpress posts. 132 00:11:51,190 --> 00:11:57,820 This gives you an excellent search engine optimized your L structure so that the names of your pages 133 00:11:57,820 --> 00:12:00,090 and posts appear in the URL. 134 00:12:00,490 --> 00:12:08,530 So click Post name and then save changes in terms of the categories and the tags which will go over 135 00:12:08,530 --> 00:12:09,850 in a future video. 136 00:12:09,860 --> 00:12:16,720 The category default base your L word is called Category But there's an explanation here if you use 137 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,930 the word topics right here then it'll make your link say slash topics and then whatever the category 138 00:12:22,930 --> 00:12:29,660 name is tag is the default word for the tag base. 139 00:12:29,660 --> 00:12:39,050 Lastly there are a few default posts pages and comments that get put in so you can look at the way that 140 00:12:39,050 --> 00:12:45,590 the theme looks and there's a hello world post where if you open that up you can just see one sentence 141 00:12:45,590 --> 00:12:46,310 in here. 142 00:12:46,310 --> 00:12:47,270 Welcome to WordPress. 143 00:12:47,270 --> 00:12:49,890 This is your first post edit or delete it. 144 00:12:49,970 --> 00:12:56,150 Then start writing and you could see that our permalink structure has propagated through the site and 145 00:12:56,420 --> 00:13:04,770 it's got the post name here after the website address if you click pages all pages you'll see that there's 146 00:13:04,790 --> 00:13:11,840 also a sample page that comes up and you can see that from our settings under reading when we set a 147 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:18,610 static page for our home page it's now showing us that yes this is called the front page that we chose 148 00:13:18,620 --> 00:13:19,640 in that other setting. 149 00:13:20,450 --> 00:13:26,360 Finally there is a default comment that comes up and all three of these pages are something that you 150 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,880 may want to either edit or delete before you deliver this site to a client. 151 00:13:33,270 --> 00:13:38,640 In this video you've opened up your local WordPress installation looked at the defaults and changed 152 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,930 some of the default settings to it here with best practices. 153 00:13:42,690 --> 00:13:48,180 In the next chapter you'll build your first client say a simple brochure website using the default theme 154 00:13:48,420 --> 00:13:50,020 and a few extra plugins. 155 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:50,800 See you there.