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I’m not 100% familiar with Nivo, but here is a link to their forums, where I am sure you can get better answers…

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/simple-nivo-slider

Looking at the code via Chrome, it seems that the text is actually the caption for the images

<div class=”nivo-caption” style=”opacity: 0.8;”><p style=”display: block;”>
‘Your team were communicative, logical and methodical in their approach to the installation and above all, they kept in mind that we are a live business with our own customers to serve.’

</br>
</br>
Julie Tucker – Director

</br> … </p></div>
Can’t be conclusive looking at it from this perspective, but have a look at the galleries you have in place and see if the captions match up.

Al

You should be able to see the settings page for the Nivo slider by going to Settings> WP Nivo Slider (if thats the proper plugin).

Good luck and let me know if that works. If not, I’ll dig deeper for you.

Al

it sounds like you are running two different things here…

in order to run a site locally you would need to create a folder within the htdocs folder of MAMP called “mysite”. ( of course, you would change that to whatever you wanted to call your site.

Then inside that folder you would place all of the WP files ( not the folder, unless you wanted the end result of your local install to be “mysite/wordpress”). Once you have done that, go to PHP myadmin and create a database to use with your new site. make note of the database name, database username and the password.

Now you can go back to your site( via a browser) at localhost:88888/mysite and simply follow the prompts and instructions to finish the install of WP. Once done, you will see your finsihed site at localhost:8888/mysite, just like it would show on a hosting providers service.

Hopefully that helps,

Al

WordPress lives where you install it…it is is your downloads folder because all you have done is downloaded the software….to make it run you need to install it into a directory within your htdocs folder…you’ll need to do that for every site you wish to have working locally…

you lost me on the last part…do you mean you just need to to type localhost/mysite in order to view your site?

Al

Bob,

here is how I would approach it…

Just before I was about to publish the new site, i would do an export from the exisitng live site, import it into the local version, make sure everything works/looks good, then use a migration plugin like Backupbuddy. That way I could overwrite the existing site, and make sure I have the latest post included in the new site.

Hope it helps,

Al

There are any number of different backup plugins available.I’m personally a fan of backupbuddy from Ithemes.com. It has a cost to it, but I find the cost to be justified as it works as great backup and migration tool.

Glad I was able to help

Hi,

Applying a theme should not do anything to your database, although it is always a good idea to make sure you have a backup of your entire site, database and all before you make any major changes to it…

A couple of other things to consider

1. What version of WordPress are you running? Are you on the latest?
2. Where are you buying the themes from? Do they have a good reputation.

if the answer to number 1 is yes, then buying a theme froma shop with a good reputation will make the process even easier and hopefully stress free.

Hope that helps,

Al

Hi,

A Port simply allows software application ( like MySQL and Apache) to share your computers hardware without interfering with one another. Chances are, you are going to be just fine using the default ports specified by MAMP, so don’t spend a lot of time worrying about it, just go with the defaults.

As for URL, when you are working on a site locally on your computer and want to see how it’s going to look/perform/behave in a browser you would simply type in localhost:8888/whatever-you-named-the-folder that you created the site in….Tip…make sure you are creating that folder in the htdocs folder of MAMP.

So for an example…if I had a site folder named ‘mysite’ within the htdocs folder, I would send my browser to localhost:8888/mysite to view it…I’m assuming of course that you have MAMP turned on here, otherwise you’ll get an error message.

As for PHP…WordPress require at a minimum version 5.0…so you are good with either version, although it’s always good from a security standpoint to use the latest and greatest version, so I would personally go with PHP 5.2.11 ( i think the 17 may be a typo…)

Hope that helps,

Al

Do you have any content in the “Events ” category? The page is actually working but you don’t seem to have any content in that category. Once you do , you should be good !

Hi,

When you made the “events” link in the menu did you make a page or add the category “events” to the menu?

if you add the category to the menu, you will set up what is called a ‘Category archive page’, and when visitors go to that link they will be presented with a page of the latest posts from that category.

here is an article I wrote on the topic:

https://wpteach.com/how-to-create-a-page-based-on-a-category/

Hope it helps!

Hi there, what you are looking for is a magazine styled theme. There are all kinds of them available both free and as premium (paid).

Have a look at the themes in the links below for similar looking ideas

https://wp.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/23/best-wordpress-themes-newspapers/

you might also want to have a look at WP-Clear from solostream.com

Hope that helps!

ya…I’ve poured through those and they dont really explain how to replace the header with custom code…any other suggestions?

I have had to reinstall WordPress on my shared hosting service. I created a new DB for the new install and am now wondering if I can import my old posts to the new db?