This Powerpoint presentation provides information on how to: - Activate a plugin that blocks spam - Rearrange the order of your menu items - Create a child theme to add css style commands to your website

2.  http://www.karenmcintyre.net/wp-admin
(example of comment spam)
 Install the Akismet plugin
 Click on the plugins tab in your dashboard

14.  1. Go to Appearance  Menu
◦ Create a new menu (give it a name)
◦ Drag items to menu (can be pages or categories)
◦ Drag menu items to rearrange their order
 2. Go to Pages
◦ Add an “order” number to each page

17.  Assign each one a subsequent number
 Update
 Refresh your site
 Your nav items should now be in the order
you assigned them

18.  Log into Fetch
 Go to webapps  portfoliowp  wpcontent
 themes
 Create a new folder called “themename-child”

19.  Create a style.css file in Komodo Edit
◦ You know you need to name it style.css because
that’s what the theme’s original css stylesheet is
named (as displayed in Appearance  Editor)
 Copy the comment code from the top of the
style.css file in your Wordpress dashboard,
and paste it into your new style.css file

20.  Add a comment line called “Template” and
call it whatever your theme folder is named in
Fetch (in this case, twentyfourteen)

21.  Add a line of code below the comment: @import url
(“../twentyfourteen/style.css”);
◦ Be sure to replace “twentyfourteen/style.css” with your
theme name and css file name.
◦ This tells the browser to use all the styles from the original
theme plus any new styles we add to this new style.css file

22.  Put your new style.css file into the child
theme folder you created in Fetch
 Back in your Wordpress dashboard, go to
Appearance  Themes
◦ You should see your new child theme
 Activate your new child theme

23.  Add a style to your new style.css file
◦ Update the file in Fetch
◦ Refresh your website to make sure your style
commands work
 You will now add all of your new styles to this
file to customize your website