Linux blog by Niki Ahlskog: Playing With Wordpress

In the earlier post I installed Wordpress http://nikinlinux.blogspot.fi/2013/08/how-to-install-wordpress.html

To access your wordpress-admin panel type to your browser: yourblog.com/wp-admin/

Some tasks to do:
- Change url type to permalink
- Change theme
- Backup everything

About permalinks: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

To setup permalinks

go from the admin panel to Settings -> Permalinks and select your wanted type.

Also open terminal and type:

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo service apache2 restart

Permalink should be set if you want someone to link to your post.

If Wordpress is asking .htaccess file just create that file under wordpress and copypaste the text it offers.

nano .htaccess

This is the code in my example.

Themes

can be simply set under Appearance -> Themes you can manage your current themes, install a new one or create your own.

However it needs ftp and I don't want to install it on my server. Go for example http://wordpress.org/themes/ and download a new theme or Google a new theme, there are thousands of themes available for wordpress for free. I downloaded a new theme in a zip file so I had to unzip it.

sudo apt-get install zip && unzip
and to unzip the file simply type
unzip filename.zip
then move your unzipped theme folder under wordpress/wp-content/themes
mv attitude/ wordpress/wp-content/themes

Go back to your WP-admin panel and activate your new theme from "Manage Themes" page.

Backup

It's good to have backup. If your page gets hacked or you accidentally delete something you can bring all your posts back from backup file. Wordpress backup file can be created from Tools - Export I created some test data, took backup, then deleted it and bring back with Import. And again if you haven't setup FTP just download the importer manually from wordpress and move it under wordpress/wp-content/plugins