How to Install WordPress on Your Computer With Microsoft’s WPI.
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Microsoft WPI is a cool system to install WordPress or other CMS systems locally automatically on your computer. It automatically installs PHP, MySQL, and a webserver along with whatever extras, like WordPress, that you choose.
For those that don’t know, this setup on your computer allows you to setup a website without the use of a server on the web. You can experiment all that you like for free and without the public seeing the website. There are some other utilities that this is useful for, like creating a home or small office intranet, learning how to maintain a webserver, building a website for demonstration, or training.
Just follow the instructions, and for the exception of a few passwords, take the default settings and you can have a local website. There are other programs like WAMP that will do this, but Microsoft’s is the best that I’ve seen so far, and it’s free.
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Artisteer Problem Solved
This post for WordPress Artisteer users only.
I was having a weird problem with the editor for the footer. It kept adding slashes for any edits. The fix for the footer backslash problem is this code. You have to go way to the bottom of the forum post before you find where someone found a solution
Category Count Removal in Artisteer Theme on WordPress
Artisteer themes were driving me crazy because they either do not have a way to turn off the Category Count(the number in parenthesis that shows the number of posts in a category) or I can’t find the setting to turn it off.
I took the time to find it in the theme code. All that you need to do is set the show_count variable from a 1 to a zero.
Go to your dashboard, then the appearance tab, then the editor tab. From there edit the sidebar1.php (or whatever sidebar your category block is in) file this way.
Change this:
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories(‘show_count=1&title_li=’); ?>
</ul>
To this:
<ul>
<?php wp_list_categories(‘show_count=0&title_li=’); ?>
</ul>
That should remove number and the parenthesis from the category listing.
