Install WordPress on your home computer

I like to try new things with WordPress, but it's time consuming, and occasionally risky, to upload every incremental change or tweak to a remote web host for testing. Wouldn't it be great to have a local test environment with MySql, PHP, and WordPress?

After doing a little research, I discovered XAMPP, with Apache, MySQL, [...]

Iframe in a post

As a test, I edited this post in the Visual editor, switched to HTML to add the iframe, and published. Never go back to the Visual editor after adding an iframe tag to a post because the TinyMCE editor will strip it out.

It’s advisable to install the tiny RawHTML plugin, if you use [...]

Link to product details in an aStore iframe

It’s easy to link to product detail pages in a standalone Amazon store, or to use the target attribute with a custom navigation menu on the same web page as an aStore iframe. But what if you have several product reviews on various pages of your site, and want to link to their product [...]

Precise font-size and line-height

I love the flexibility of the Atahualpa WordPress Theme Options list, but I confess to making one change to a core file outside of the Options interface. I added a line to css.php to set the font-size of the root element to 62.5% so that the body font expressed in ems could be calculated as [...]

Migrating to BlueHost

Right after signing up for web hosting services with BlueHost, I installed WordPress. After clicking WordPress on the CPanel, Simple Scripts took over and set up the files and database in moments. Nothing went wrong, so yay!

After installing the blog, I logged in to WordPress and used the Tools, Import panel to add content [...]