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As a long term Wordpress user I’m a bit biased when it comes to simple, out-of-the-box CMS software. I’m currently starting to play around with the coding required to make themes work for a number of personal and work-related projects. I’ll be collating links and sharing Wordpress hacks as I go along.

One of the simplest things I’ve found, that has made my life a lot easier, were suggestions for a virtual development server. As a Mac user I know that I’ve got one built in – and have used Terminal to play around with Django, which meant kicking in the server. But this was a little complicated.

After a bit of digging, I found suggestions for using MAMP (Mac) and XAMP (Windows) as a dev server – so I can hack around to my heart’s content.

The only issue I found was working out the web address for the project – the MAMP site left me scratching my head, so I did a bit of searching on how to set up MAMP for a Wordpress install.

Basically you drop your site into the appropriate MAMP folder and set up the Wordpress config file as per the instructions. Then just run the installer at http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

I’ve started digging around in the theme folder – I’m currently looking at magazine-style themes and looking at Arthemia and Scarlett, both of which offer some interesting possibilities but neither of which quite do what I’d like them to do. Hence the reason for starting to hack around.

Starting points

I’m currently reading .net magazine’s issue 199 which has a good article on Wordpress and an old .net article on Wordpress Themes for Designers.

Related links

Digging into Wordpress

WP Recipes

WP Engineer

Wordpress Tavern

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February 3, 2010 | Filed Under Hacking for hacks 

Comments

  • Thanks for linking to WPTavern as a resource. I don't provide many hands on articles or how-to's but I tend to keep everyone updated on the going ons with WordPress and the surrounding community.

    If you run into trouble or just need suggestions, I encourage you to register on the WPTavern forum as it's filled with a ton a of smart WordPress people.

    http://www.wptavern.com/forum/
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