{"id":79,"date":"2014-10-22T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/?p=79"},"modified":"2016-09-01T21:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:51:33","slug":"time-to-customize-the-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/22\/time-to-customize-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Customize the Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a website up.\u00a0 Now I wanted to customize it.\u00a0 I am not going into a large post on how to do this, because this has already been done a number of times before by the wonderful people who make the theme, and their supporters.\u00a0 Last night, I started with this post:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-326\" src=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-001_First_Post-300x138.png\" alt=\"002-001_First_Post\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-001_First_Post-300x138.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-001_First_Post.png 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, I went back to the WordPress Website and did a few other google searched before I decided\u00a0on\u00a0<a title=\"Customizr Demo\" href=\"http:\/\/demo.themesandco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Customizr\u00a0<\/a>theme by\u00a0 <a title=\"Themes &amp; Co\" href=\"http:\/\/themesandco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Themes &amp; Co<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the demo looked like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-002_Starting_Page.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-325\" src=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-002_Starting_Page-300x187.png\" alt=\"002-002_Starting_Page\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-002_Starting_Page-300x187.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-002_Starting_Page.png 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After downloading the new Theme, it took some work to get the basic site back up.\u00a0 I plan on adding a lot more, but I am looking for functional.<\/p>\n<p>Once issue that I had was I could not use the in browser WordPress theme updater because I have the server hosted in the cloud.\u00a0 This generated an number of issues, that required more reading.\u00a0 In short, I had to manually upload the theme and refresh the WordPress server.<\/p>\n<p><em>I will explain how to avoid this in the future. but if you want to start doing this you must manually FTP the wordpress version you want to use an <a title=\"FTP Clients\" href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/FTP_Clients\" target=\"_blank\">FTP client<\/a> to access your host web server, create a directory to save your Theme in the <tt>wp-content\/themes<\/tt> directory provided by WordPress. For example, a Theme named <b>test <\/b>should be in <tt>wp-content\/themes\/test<\/tt>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-324\" src=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme-300x128.png\" alt=\"Chaning the theme\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme-300x128.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme-1024x436.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme-1170x500.png 1170w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-003_Changing_the_theme.png 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have a basic theme and site outline, I need to add graphics.\u00a0 Between mspaint from Microsoft, and Paint.net, I have been able to generate simple, yet effective graphics.\u00a0 The do-it-yourselfer in me just won&#8217;t quit.\u00a0 <em>It should also be noted that the graphics below represented my best efforts at the time.\u00a0 If you are just joining this read, you will see the graphics are much improved today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-004_Graphics_Added.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/52.24.147.87\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-004_Graphics_Added-300x137.png\" alt=\"Graphics Added\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-004_Graphics_Added-300x137.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-004_Graphics_Added-1024x467.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/002-004_Graphics_Added.png 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a basic site, and I should be able to start using the site as opposed to setting it up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had a website up.\u00a0 Now I wanted to customize it.\u00a0 I am not going into a large post on how to do this, because this has already been done a number of times before by the wonderful people who make the theme, and their supporters.\u00a0 Last night, I started with this post: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,4,17],"tags":[25,24,54,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stonemillkids.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}