Now we'll delve back into your local development environment and check out the way Wordpress is installed
by default in a standard WordPress installation.
There are several default themes present with the newest one activated and a couple of standard plug
ins as well plus the default settings are always set the same.
And there are a few that should be changed to use best practices in this video.
You'll learn what settings to change as soon as you install WordPress installation and why these changes
are important.
Let's go first let's get set up with our local WordPress installation that we set up in the previous
video.
I'm going to start map and it's already started so I can see the Apache server and the MiSeq will server
are running and I'm going to open preferences just to make sure I know where I need to go and click
the web server tab and I can see that under-sea colon H.T. docs under the map folder is where I have
my document root and that tells me that under localhost each of my folder names that I had set up with
a WordPress installation will be the name of my web site.
If you remember I set up WP of course one as my wordpress Web site.
But let's open windows explorer and if I look under C colon and in the map folder under H.T. docs you
can see that I've got these different WordPress installations present.
If you open windows explorer you can go and see which folders you have and what are their names and
then go back to your browser and type the name of one of the folders and hit return and it'll load your
Web site as long as map is running.
Now in the default installation the maildir sidebar information is down here on the right hand side
and there is a log in button I'll usually right click on that and click Open link in New Tab and I already
have a tab open here and I can log in with the username that I had set up before and password.
So now I'm logged in to my fresh WordPress installation that has all the defaults set up and I'm now
on the internet.
I'm using WordPress in a local environment and it's going to be the fastest setup for creating new sites
and managing my coursework.
Go ahead and navigate to your own WordPress installation and we'll get started looking at the defaults.
First of all if you open the website itself you can see that this is the 2016 theme.
Let's go back to the tab.
Open up appearance and themes.
And look let's look at which themes come with wordpress at this point.
One is called 20:16 it tells me that it's the active theme.
The next one is 2015 and 2014.
If you click each of the theme details buttons you can look at what themes the current theme.
Some information about the theme how it's tagged and the image of the theme.
There's a few control buttons here but I don't usually use these control buttons to customize my websites.
I'll use the ones that are over here under appearance.
You can click the small arrow at the top left to go through the themes that are installed in your workplace
installation and look at that actual traits for each one of them.
And the X closes that modal window
if you rollover plugins and then click install plugins you can see that WordPress ships with two plugins
already installed.
Now they're not activated but they are installed Ekis meant prevents comment spam and hello Dolly is
a fun plugin created by one of the founders of Wordpress Matt Mullen awake.
And if we activate the Hello Dolly plug in you can see that it's very simple.
What it does is it gives you a quote from the Hello Dolly musical in the top of your dashboard.
Every time you go to a different page
Now this isn't a plug in.
That would be appropriate for your client.
You might go into the plug ins list which I often do and I delete that plug in I like to keep my dashboard
simple and understandable for my clients.
So once it's not activated you can hit delete and go ahead and delete the files.
And then that plug it won't be in your play list anymore.
X-Men is a great plug in to activate once you've got your site set up and configured because if you
have comments enabled for posts on the website it will prevent a lot of spam from coming in and spamming
and emailing the managers and the administrators of the site.
For now all on building sites I just keep it in activated.
Now if I go up and roll over users and look at your profile you can see some information about your
user account and down a few items down is the word toolbar and the checkbox show toolbar.
When viewing site now by default WordPress has this checkbox enabled and if you go over to the Web site
in another tab you can see that the toolbar across the top is a place that you can use to get to the
dashboard and other places to manage your site as well as your user profile and log in and log out button
over here a member of the public wouldn't be seeing this toolbar so I prefer to go back and uncheck
the toolbar box.
Update my profile.
And then because I work between two tabs in my browser I can refresh the page and that toolbar disappears.
Thereby showing me the way the site would look to the general public.
Back in the dashboard if you click Settings general or just the Settings button you'll open the general
settings tab and you'll see a few settings that you've made when you set up the Web site.
Initially the site title of course but then the tagline is a default tagline just on the wordpress site
you might change that to something more appropriate for your client.
The WordPress address of the site you are LDS are probably the same as what was set up when you were
doing your Wordpress installation your email address from when you set up the Wordpress installation.
All these are part of the defaults.
And as we roll down membership means that you can have people register as a user on the site and when
they register what type of user are they going to be a subscriber or a number of different users that
will go through as we go into making membership sites in the future I'll usually leave this unchecked
for a regular web site for a client.
I will change the time zone and not only the UTC times with the numbers but there are also time zones
in different cities across the world.
You can just type the first few letters of the largest city around and see if that is the same time
zone as yours.
Denver is the one for me and I choose a date format a time format that fits with my country or my clients
country and how I'd like to start the week.
And the language and let's save our changes.
When you say changes in wordpress you'll usually get an administrator message with a green bar here.
This one says settings saved.
You can always click the red X at the right side to close those messages.
Just a few more settings to go through.
If we check the writing settings page you'll see that as you make a post if you're doing a blog as a
part of your site if you have categories you can make a default post category post format.
We'll talk about the later video but in this theme they enable a number of different post formats whether
it's going to be an image potentially a video a status or a quote or a standard post format.
And then you can post via e-mail.
Meaning you can make an email address and when that e-mail address receives an email from you it will
make a post in the blog section of the Web site update services means when you publish a new post it
will enable the notification of a service like ping or magic dot com.
And this is good for search engine optimization and notifying Web sites around the Internet that you
have a new post
under reading this is a setting's page that controls how your website visitors will approach your website.
Your latest posts or a static page and what I'm going to do right now is select a sample the front page
which is going to be a page that's already built within the Web site.
It's one of the default pages called sambil page and I'm going to change that from your local Post's
in a subsequent video.
We're going to be learning how to configure a Web site for a client using this theme and we'll be creating
a static page as the front page in order to have that Web site be appropriate for the client.
There's a few blog settings pages and I usually use these at their defaults and then while I'm building
a site I'll usually discourage the search engines from indexing the site if it's on my Live hosting
company.
I don't have to have that checked if it's locally inside my own computer because no one can access it
through the internet but I click save changes for my front page display settings discussion has to do
with commenting.
And there's a few settings you can read through here if you're going to have a blog section on your
client's Web site and you can control the commenting system.
Under media depending on what theme you are using these are the standard image sizes that get created
when you upload a photo or an image to the media library.
I usually leave these at their defaults unless I'm looking to match my column with or the body text
with inside of posts and pages.
And at that time I might change this to the appropriate size so that every time I upload an image it'll
make a nice size image for that column with in terms of the way you organize your files inside the media
library.
You can organize them into different folders that have months and years.
Or you can leave all of your images inside of the media library which is a folder called uploads and
depends what you're trying to do with your clients.
But oftentimes I will just uncheck the organize my uploads box as I'm building the site and potentially
if that client wants to have a blog and they're going to be uploading images relative to different dates
and posts I'll recheck that for future uploads.
Lastly permalink are the you are Elle's that your site is using now.
It's very important actually that you check an appropriate box right here.
Post name is currently the most popular permalink setting for Wordpress posts.
This gives you an excellent search engine optimized your L structure so that the names of your pages
and posts appear in the URL.
So click Post name and then save changes in terms of the categories and the tags which will go over
in a future video.
The category default base your L word is called Category But there's an explanation here if you use
the word topics right here then it'll make your link say slash topics and then whatever the category
name is tag is the default word for the tag base.
Lastly there are a few default posts pages and comments that get put in so you can look at the way that
the theme looks and there's a hello world post where if you open that up you can just see one sentence
in here.
Welcome to WordPress.
This is your first post edit or delete it.
Then start writing and you could see that our permalink structure has propagated through the site and
it's got the post name here after the website address if you click pages all pages you'll see that there's
also a sample page that comes up and you can see that from our settings under reading when we set a
static page for our home page it's now showing us that yes this is called the front page that we chose
in that other setting.
Finally there is a default comment that comes up and all three of these pages are something that you
may want to either edit or delete before you deliver this site to a client.
In this video you've opened up your local WordPress installation looked at the defaults and changed
some of the default settings to it here with best practices.
In the next chapter you'll build your first client say a simple brochure website using the default theme
and a few extra plugins.
See you there.