Instead of writing a tutorial on how to get you stated in the world of writing a WordPress theme from scratch, I will just give you a set of links to great material you can use.   Theme Development – WordPress Codex [http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development] You will become familiar with the basis and structure of a theme [...]

If you are starting with your own WordPress theme, plugin or widget, or simply you are having trouble in your site after you added the latest of them, you should know about the debug option in WordPress, it enables notifications to be printed out in your web page allowing to track subtle issues with your [...]

You spent quite some time setting up your environment in Windows by installing the full WAMP (Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP) stack, and you made sure that: Apache server is running and loading “plain” html files, Simple PHP files are loaded correctly You can access your MyQL database from the command line Your [...]

Does this sound like you? You spent quite some time trying to install PHP with Apache HTTP Server on Windows, after you finished configuring PHP you are ready to restart your Apache service and start typing some PHP code in your web pages; but what you find out is that you are facing the following [...]

Once you have LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) configured in your server, you may want to have an easy way to manage your MySQL server easily and making use of the Web server and PHP, in that case you can install phpMyAdmin, which will allow you to manage your database server from the web browser, and it’s open [...]

This post is the last one of the series of posts to get you started with a fully functional LAMP stack, LAMP stands for a software combination that allows you to build general purpose web sites, it contains Apache as the web server, MySQL server to provide data base access and PHP as the server [...]

Once you have your web server on Linux (see Getting started with Apache on Linux) it’s time install PHP and be able to provide some more dynamic content on your site. PHP is available on most of the Linux distributions and can be installed from the package managers. In my case I used Ubuntu software [...]