Wordpress

Installation

To run Wordpress in your localhost, you need the following applications:

Nginx
MariaDB
PHP
Wordpress

Managed Wordpress Hosting

Install Nginx

# pacman -S nginx

# systemctl start nginx

# systemctl status nginx

To test, go to http://localhost

Install MariaDB

# pacman -S mysql

Enter a number (default=1): ## Press Enter

Initialize the MariaDB data directory prior to starting the service:

# mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql

# systemctl start mysqld

# systemctl status mysqld

Set MySQL/MariaDb root user password:

# mysql_secure_installation

Enter current password for root (enter for none): ## Press Enter

Set root password? [Y/n]## Press Enter

New password:##  Enter password

Re-enter new password:  ## Re-enter password

Remove anonymous users? [Y/n]## Press Enter

Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n]## Press Enter

Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n]## Press Enter

Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n]## Press Enter

Install PHP

# pacman -S php-fpm php-mysql

Edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file and add the following text as marked in the red square on the screenshot on the right:

location ~ \.php$ {

   fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;

   fastcgi_index index.php;

   root /usr/share/nginx/html;

   include fastcgi.conf;

# systemctl start php-fpm

# nano /usr/share/nginx/html/test.php

# systemctl restart nginx

To test, go to http://localhost/test.php

test.php file:

<?php

 phpinfo();

?>

Configure MariaDB

$ mysql -u root -p

MariaDB> CREATE DATABASE wordpress;

MariaDB> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO "wpuser"@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY "password";

MariaDB> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MariaDB> EXIT

Install Wordpress

cd /usr/share/nginx/html/

# wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

# tar xvzf latest.tar.gz

Go to http://localhost/wordpress and fill the form. Under "username", type wpuser instead of wpuser@localhost. When clicking on "Let's go" button, you will get a permission error. Copy the automatically generated code and do the following:

cd /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress
# sudo nano wp-config.php
Paste the code and save
Go back to the browser in the Wordpress configuration page and continue setup

Now you can login from http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php

Initial Set up

Plugins and Themes

In order to install Plugins and Themes, you must configure two things:

First thing

# nano /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress/wp-config.php

Append define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

and save

# systemctl restart nginx

Second thing

cd /usr/share/nginx/html/wordpress/

# chmod -R 757 wp-content

Bash Script server management

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" == "" ]

then

        systemctl start nginx

        systemctl start mysqld

        systemctl start php-fpm

elif [ "$1" == "-s" ]

then

 systemctl stop nginx

 systemctl stop mysqld

 systemctl stop php-fpm

elif [ "$1" == "-r" ]

then

 systemctl restart nginx

elif [ "$1" == "-status" ]

then

 echo "nginx:"

 systemctl status nginx | grep "Active"

        echo "mysqld:"

 systemctl status mysqld | grep "Active"

        echo "php-fpm:"

 systemctl status php-fpm | grep "Active"

elif [ "$1" == "--help" ] || [ "$1" == "-h" ]

then

        echo "Usage:"

        echo "'sudo ./server' will launch nginx, mysqld and php-fpm"

        echo "'sudo ./server -s' will stop nginx, mysqld and php-fpm"

        echo "'sudo ./server -r' will restart nginx"

 echo "'./server -status' will show the status of nginx, mysqld

and php-fpm"

else

 echo "Wrong argument supplied"

fi

Useful Themes and Plugins

A good starter theme is OceanWP
A must have plugin for OceanWP theme is Ocean Extra
A must have plugin for editing pages in general is Elementor
Hummingbird Page Speed Optimization
Smush Image Compression and Optimization
Yoast SEO

Update Wordpress

Dashboard -> Update

Permalinks

Dashboard -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Post name

Pages: How to clean default screen layout for OceanWP theme

Main -> Content Layout -> 100% Full Width
Title -> Display Page Title -> Disable
Click on "Update" button on the right

Home Page setup

Settings -> Reading -> Your homepage displays -> A static page -> Homepage: <select your page>

Prevent Search Engine indexation

When initially creating the website, it is recommended to turn off Search Engine indexation:

Settings -> Reading -> Search Engine Visibility -> Discourage search engines from indexing this site

Yoast SEO - RSS

Content to put before each post in the feed: %%POSTLINK%%

Content to put after each post in the feed: <p>Original article at <a href="https://mydomain.com/" rel="nofollow">My Site</a></p>

Anchors

Clickeable Component -> Content -> Link -> #target_anchor

Target anchor component -> Advanced -> CSS ID -> target_anchor (without hash symbol)

Remove Menu Page Links

Appearance -> Menus -> Menu Structure -> Affected Page -> Disable link

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