Hi guys
I bought today the theme and i am an amateur who is learning WP. I installed the sample data and i added a logo and one ad banner on the header and it looked great. So i have here a few questions before i keep on creating things.
1. If i finish all the development of the website on the sample data ( i am working on localhost ), how can i see what my real website looks like and how can i move it to a real server to display it on the web if this is a sample data.
2. In sample data all functions of template settings are not working and to be honest i think more stuff are not working.
3. Would it be better to remove the sample data? And if so how can i do it? I found a plugin to reset data and may be this could work so to avoid to do it manually since i don’k know what files to delete. Do you have any solution or can you guide me to what i should delete.
One solution that i am thinking is to open in xampp a new database and download again wordpress and your theme and start everything from scratch since i did not make a lot of things anyway.
Let me know your thoughts and advices
Happy New Year guys
Giannis
Best bet is to setup working project on a website, such as
yoursite.com/wordpress/
then when you go live, move to yoursite.com
(directions on the wordpress.org show how to do this)
This way you can see what actually works on a real web server vs localhost, where things do NOT always work as expected, particularly plugins and optimizations for speed (caching, expiration headers, image optimization, etc).
Best to setup your site without demo data, which is really only useful for showing to a client. Best to start with CLEAN site, and import a “style” then put in your own original content, since the demo content cannot actually be used for anything in the real world.
Thanks Chris
Will try all of what you said.
Happy new year
