WordPress #1 | Set a Page as Home or Default page

Hello.

To set that one particular page that you already pour your heart out and design, as the main page, just follow the steps below. Another easy tutorial.

Log in to your WordPress, go to 'Settings' > Reading > and change your homepage display to a static page as so:

Don't forget to choose your homepage.

Ok you're done! Easy right? yeah~

DIVI Builder #5 | Remove default header & footer

I'm guessing by now you're already playing with Divi and are enjoying your time.

But, oh no! Look at that annoying default header and footer that Divi provided. Yeah, we don't need them and here's how to remove em.

As usual, log into your WordPress. Click the 'Pages' menu and then click 'Edit' on the page where you want to remove both the header and footer. Ok now focus on your right side. There'll be a few sidebars. Spot one where it says "Page Attributes". That's the only menu you need to work with.

Set the template from Default Template to "Blank Page".

There. You're all set. You're welcome. Yes, it is as easy as that.

Remove WPMU (multi-site) from WordPress

Remember when we installed WordPress with the WPMU option? Yeah, that was a mistake and we need to remove it to turn it back into a single-site website (if that makes sense).

First login to your cPanel account and search for "File Manager". Click that and you'll be on a new page. Now, locate the root directory of your WordPress installation, which should be "public_html". Click that.

Within that root directory, search for the "wp-config.php" file. Right-click on that file and choose edit or anything that says edit (or icon, idk. find it).

Seeing codes? yeah, Don't worry it's gonna be an easy one. Now search for a line that says "/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */". Paste this new code right above it:

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', false);

It should look something like this:

Don't forget to save the changes you made. Close that coding page.

Now it's time for the revelation.

Alright, head to your WordPress, refresh em and see if it works or not.

You're done! That's it.

p/s: ok for some of you that don't get the result you yearn for, don't worry, you can just uninstall and re-install the whole WordPress. I'll show you how in the next post.

DIVI Builder #4 | Install DIVI themes into WordPress

Let us now look at how to install and use Divi by eleganthemes.com on WordPress.

Log in to your eleganthemes.com account. From the top menu bar, click Account and choose 'Product Downloads'. Click 'Download the Divi Theme'. Yes you need to download it first. You'll get a zip file.

Now head back to your WordPress site.

From your left menu bar, find themes. Then find a button that says install a new theme or anything near that. Now try uploading that Divi zip file you downloaded earlier.

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okay now hold your horses. Do you get this error?

It's okay, that is why this post right here exist so that I can show you what to do.

Now, time to adjust some settings. 

Go to cPanel > MultiPHP INI Editor > choose your site > change "post_max_size" and "upload_max_filesize" to any number/size bigger than your Divi file (eg: 20MB)

Ok now try uploading that Divi file again and pray for it to work.

Ok proceed people. Now that you have this (YES!), you need to activate it to start using it. At the same themes page, just click activate on Divi. You'll see it and you'll get what I mean.

Appearance > Theme. You'll see Divi! Click Activate! You are done! We rock! We made a mistake but we still rock.

That's it. bye. Have fun editing!

DIVI Builder #3 | Introduction to Visual Builder

 Enabling the Visual Builder

Open WordPress dashboard > Pages > navigate to any page > Edit > Enable Visual Builder.

This is a drag-and-drop page builder.

The Basics

1. Sections

Used to create large groups of content.

3 types: Regular, Specialty & Full-Width.

Regular: made up of rows and columns.

Specialty: have advanced sidebar layouts.

2. Rows

Sits inside sections.

3. Modules

DIVI Builder #2 | How to Install into WordPress Theme

Go to elegantthemes.com > login.

Account > Product Downloads > Download the Divi theme > you'll get Divi.zip file.

To upload theme, go to WordPress dashboard.

Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme > upload Divi.zip file.

After the theme has been fully uploaded, click "Activate" to start activate and using the theme.