A presentation given on Saturday April 19th for WordCamp Miami Beginners Workshop.

1. Working w/ WordPress
Importing/Exporting, Customizing and Troubleshooting

2. It’s me…
Jean Felisme
WordPress Designer and Developer
@jfeliweb
jean@bizdotsmedia.com
bizdotsmedia.co | jeanfelisme.com

3. You did it!!!!
 Domain
 Hosting
 WordPress
 Theme
 Plugin
...Now What?
The Good Stuff!

4. Before you start...
Things to Know...
● Basic Knowledge of HTML and CSS
● Text Editor
● Local Development | Development Site
www.mamp.info OR serverpress.com
● A Cool Head
● Backup Everything

5. Site Backup
• Why you should backup?
• Manually Backup your site.
• Plugin to use to backup. (BackupBuddy)
• Content Backup (Import/Export)

6. Import/Export Content
Importing Types
From other sites
o Tumblr
o Blogger
o WordPress
etc…

7. Import/Export Content
Export

8. Customizing
Walkthrough of...
• Reading Settings
• Appearance Editor
o Theme Options CSS
Fields
• Child Theme

9. Customizing
Child Theme
Child Theme Folder
○ style.css

10. Reading settings...

11. Appearance Editor

12. Troubleshooting
 Stay Calm
 What was the last action
performed before receiving the
error?
 Check Backups
Ohh Noo!

13. Troubleshooting
Syntax Error
Why?
● Plugin Update
● Code Snippets
● Memory Limit

14. The Fix
FTP to file
○ rename plugin
○ undo change file
Troubleshooting
Syntax Error

15. Troubleshooting
White Screen of Death
Why?
Most times its an exhausted the memory limit
• Cause by Plugin(s)
• Cause by Theme
• Cause by Web Host

16. Troubleshooting
Demo of fixing the White Screen of Death
● Disable Plugins
● Switch to Default Theme
○ Increase Memory limits
○ Going even farther
■ WP_Debug
■ PHP.INI file

17. Resources
WordPress Codex (codex.wordpress.org)
WordPress Forums (wordpress.org/support/)
WPBeginner (www.wpbeginner.com)
Google Search (google.com)
StackOverflow WordPress (wordpress.stackexchange.com)

18. Questions?
email: jean@BizDotsMedia.com
twitter: @jfeliweb
websites: BizDotsMedia.co | JeanFelisme.com