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Completing my WordPress Site
Adding finishing touches and making adjustments What did you do to your site this week? Most of my work was in adding actual contents and blog posts in the “off-topic/rewind” category of my WordPress site. I had assistance from an open classes meeting where Professor Graham helped fine-tuning my “contact” page to get it to …
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SEO-ify Your Site
Search Engine Optimization plugins for your WordPress Site Is SEO important to your site? Why or why not? SEO is important to my website because I plan on using it as a portfolio page and as a resume reference page (when employers google search potential applicants for employment consideration). I hope that the website rank …
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Optimize Your Site
The performance results for my website before making improvements: And after making improvements to my website’s performance: Were you able to improve? Why or why not? Yes, I was definitely able to improve the performance of my website. First, I went to https://geoffgraham.me/wordpress-how-to-clean-up-the-header/ and copied the helpful script there into the functions.php of my child …
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Adding Plugins to Your Site
Which one did you choose? I chose the following plugins: All-in-One WP Migration by ServMask WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click by wp-buy WP Forms Lite by WP Forms Why did you choose it? Well, All-in One WP Migration was a plugin I found when I was dealing with the dilemma of figuring …
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Continue Working on Your Site
Trial and Error What’s different this week? Other than the blog feed page at https://www.ronaldseam.com/web-development, not much else is different on my page this week. I took a detour this past week in my attempt to better understand WordPress beyond the Gutenberg block-editor level by spending a couple days following along a 47 minute video …
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Blog Feed
Cool Beanzzzzz Was it easy to use it or super confusing? Well, I actually went back and watched the recorded lecture. I followed along with the coding exercise, template name: Cool Beanzzzzz (anythingyouwant.php). It was those codes that I typed after following along the lecture that I used as the base for my layout for …
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Organizing and Linking Content
Creating Menus to Navigate Your Website I thought the way WordPress handle menus was pretty efficient. It took some practice for me to get use to the process of how to create menus in WordPress. It was just a matter of, in the Dashboard, going to Appearance >> Menus and then messing around with options …
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Creating a Header and Homepage
A “Drag-and-Drop” Process? For this week’s assignment, I am to have created a header and create a home page. For the header part, I already had the “site title” and “tagline” (Ronald Seam and Ronald’s Random Rants, respectively) as the result of using a child theme of WordPress’ Twenty-Seventeen. Although I was happy with the …
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Creating My First Theme
Creating and Using a Child Theme As much as I would have liked to say I created a Custom Theme from scratch, I decided to go with creating my first theme by creating a Child Theme based on one of the default WordPress theme. I decided to go this route because I am a beginner …
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Local By Flywheel
My Local Development Environment A local development environment is like a flight simulator for web development. It is different from a production development environment because whereas a production site is a published website that is live, online, and can be seen by the end-user in public, a web site on a local development environment is …