This document discusses various topics related to customizing and troubleshooting WordPress sites such as importing and exporting content, customizing themes and plugins, and fixing common errors. It recommends having basic HTML and CSS skills, using a text editor and local development environment, and backing up sites. Import/export of content from other platforms is covered as is the appearance editor, child themes, and troubleshooting white screens of death or syntax errors which may be caused by plugins, themes, or server limits. Resources for support are also provided.

1. Working w/ WordPress
Importing/Exporting, Customizing and Troubleshooting

2. It’s me…
Jean Felisme
WordPress Designer and Developer
@jfeliweb
jean@bizdotsmedia.com
bizdotsmedia.co | jeanfelisme.com

3. You did it!!!!
 Domain
 Hosting
 WordPress
 Theme
 Plugin
...Now What?
The Good Stuff!

4. Before you start...
Things to Know...
● Basic Knowledge of HTML and CSS
● Text Editor
● Local Development | Development Site
www.mamp.info OR serverpress.com
● A Cool Head
● Backup Everything

5. Site Backup
• Why you should backup?
• Manually Backup your site.
• Plugin to use to backup. (BackupBuddy)
• Content Backup (Import/Export)

6. Import/Export Content
Importing Types
From other sites
o Tumblr
o Blogger
o WordPress
etc…

7. Import/Export Content
Export

8. Customizing
Walkthrough of...
• Reading Settings
• Appearance Editor
o Theme Options CSS
Fields
• Child Theme

9. Customizing
Child Theme
Child Theme Folder
○ style.css

10. Reading settings...

11. Appearance Editor

12. Troubleshooting
 Stay Calm
 What was the last action
performed before receiving the
error?
 Check Backups
Ohh Noo!

13. Troubleshooting
Syntax Error
Why?
● Plugin Update
● Code Snippets
● Memory Limit

14. The Fix
FTP to file
○ rename plugin
○ undo change file
Troubleshooting
Syntax Error

15. Troubleshooting
White Screen of Death
Why?
Most times its an exhausted the memory limit
• Cause by Plugin(s)
• Cause by Theme
• Cause by Web Host

16. Troubleshooting
Demo of fixing the White Screen of Death
● Disable Plugins
● Switch to Default Theme
○ Increase Memory limits
○ Going even farther
■ WP_Debug
■ PHP.INI file

17. Resources
WordPress Codex (codex.wordpress.org)
WordPress Forums (wordpress.org/support/)
WPBeginner (www.wpbeginner.com)
Google Search (google.com)
StackOverflow WordPress (wordpress.stackexchange.com)

18. Questions?
email: jean@BizDotsMedia.com
twitter: @jfeliweb
websites: BizDotsMedia.co | JeanFelisme.com