LyleChamney

Not sure where you got that info from, but it is definitely not necessary.

Check out the extensive documentation from the plugin’s site:

http://contactform7.com/docs/

Perhaps try this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/

It easily lets you control the length of the excerpts, among many other cool features, such as displaying your posts in a grid.

For that any option?

Yep! This is what I love about helping out on the forum; I learn so much new, cool stuff! 🙂

With leaving your thumbnails in the Views setting at the 150 value, go to:

Settings > Media > Image sizes > Thumbnail size > adjust to your liking > Save

Refresh the site and your thumbnails should decrease in size. You may have to tweak this a bit to get it to your exact desired size.

However, in response to your previous query about the one big post and three smaller ones on the same line, that is doable with the free version of Beaver Builder: and this Views plugin:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/beaver-builder-lite-version/

1. install the plugin and activate
2. create a new View, but with just one post and the image set to medium or whatever you want and save
3. on the page you want, select Page Builder, either from the Page list or once inside the editor for that page
4. add a 2 column row wherever you want the posts to appear
5. add a text widget from the WP Widgets drop down into each column area
6. in the first text widget, paste the shortcode from the large View
7. in the second text widget, past the shortcode from the 3 post View
8. you should see this happening as you do it! … the joy of BB 🙂
9. click Done and Publish changes

Too cool! 🙂

Oh yeah, and it’s all responsive 🙂

Your “failing” is over 🙂

I just tried out this one and it fits your needs exactly. If I understand them correctly, you want the featured image on top, title below, post meta, then the excerpt or full text, and 3 of these in a horizontal row, which is responsive.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/

@arondello

Firstly, when you download and install MAMP/MAMP Pro, it by default installs MAMP; you have to deliberately choose to use MAMP Pro. I recommend not doing so at this point.

Just to try it, I ditched my current MAMP install (was just some testing sites) and started over fresh. Fresh download of the latest MAMP 3.0.7.3 and WP 4.0.1 on a Mac Mini running Yosemite.

From double clicking the MAMP download to viewing the WP site homepage … 3 minutes 🙂

1. download the FREE MAMP
2. double click the download package and run the MAMP install
3. start MAMP (Applications/MAMP/Mamp (double click)
4. start the servers
5. copy the WP download to Applications/MAMP/htdocs and extract there
6. there will now be a folder named wordpress
7. from the MAMP start page, select Tools > phpMyAdmin
8. click the Databases tab
9. enter a name in the Create database entry field (no spaces!) and click Create
10. in your browser, enter: http://localhost:8888/wordpress
11. click the Create a Configuration File button
12. at the database info screen, enter:

— database name: whatever you named it
— database user: root <the default MAMP DATABASE user>
— database password: root <the default MAMP DATABASE USER password>
— host name: localhost
— table prefix: wp_ <leave as-is>
13. fill out as required, un-check the privacy item (for local installs)
14. log in with the WORDPRESS user and password you just entered in the previous screen

If you installed MAMP with the default settings, then the info to change in your wp-config.php file is:

database name: whatever YOU named it when you created the new, empty one using MAMP’s phpMyAdmin (no spaces)

database user: root <the default MAMP DATABASE user name>

database password: root <the default MAMP DATABASE user’s password>

host name: localhost

NOTE!!! Do NOT use TextEdit to make these changes! It messes with the quotes. Use a plain text editor such as Text Wrangler (free).

However, as the site was previously running on WAMP, then you will have to edit the siteurl and home fields in the database now on MAMP with the URL of the new location on your Mac.

For instance, if you placed the files in a folder named wordpress within Applications/MAMP/htdocs/ and are using the standard MAMP port, then the values to enter into these two fields are:

http://localhost:8888/wordpress

Once that is all done, you should be able access the site login with:

http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin

After you log in, install and run this plugin to update the links for this new location:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

— select all options EXCEPT the last one (GUID)

Once that is done, go to:

Settings > Permalinks and Save.

You should now be good to go 🙂

I’ll toss my 2 cents in here as well 🙂

The easiest way to run multiple sites locally is the method catacaustic mentioned, and it works the same way on Windows and Mac (can’t speak for Linux). This method works for XAMPP (Win and PC), WAMPServer, Uniform Server, MAMP (Win and PC). These are the ones that I use (US is my fave though 🙂

In all of the above, you will have your document root or web root. It will be named either htdocs or www. It is within this location where you create a sub folder to place the files for that particular site.

Note however, that you can also install directly into the root for ONE site ONLY, although it’s not recommended due solely to it ‘cluttering up’ the root. No technical reason why not though.

Also note that you are not limited to what ‘script’ you add to this; it’s not restricted to WordPress. Any PHP/MySQL script will work as well as plain old static HTML sites; just place all the files for them in separate folders within the root. Joomla!, Drupal, Prestashop, eFront are just some of the ones I have in my various local servers. You can add as many installs as your hard drive has room for.

So, to add another WP (Joomla!, eFront, Prestashop, etc.) site (“instance”), just create a new database for it, create a new folder in the root, place the files for it within it and run the installer 🙂

For XAMPP, extract the WP package in htdocs (the root). The WP package contains a folder named wordpress which contains all the files required. Simply rename this folder to your liking, such as wordpress2.

Using phpMyAdmin, create a new, empty database and name it wordpress2 for example. Then run the install using:

http://localhost/wordpress2 and for the database info page, use:

– Database Name: wordpress2
– Database User: root (the default XAMPP DATABASE user)
– Database Password: <empty> (do not enter anything here; this is the default XAMPP DATABASE password for the default user)
– Host Name: localhost
– Table Prefix: wp_ (leave as-is)

To add more WP sites, repeat, changing the folder and db names of course 🙂

By default, WAMPServer does not have the rewrite module enabled in Apache, which is why anything other than the default permalink settings will 404.

An easy way to enable the module is:
– click the green W icon for WAMPServer in the system tray
– select Apache > Apache Modules > scroll down the list to see rewrite_module and click on it to set the check mark
– restart Apache

Try that 🙂