LyleChamney

Hollie –

When you initially installed MAMP, did you change any of the default settings after or during the installation?

If not, then indeed, your site files will be in:

Applications/MAMP/htdocs or most likely Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress

What is the URL you use to access the local site? Is it:

http://localhost:8888/wordpress ?

If it is the above, then your theme is located:
Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/restauranteur

Simply delete the restauranteur folder which should cause WP to revert to it’s default Twenty Fourteen theme. If not, you will sitll be able to access the Dashbaord where you can then install the updated theme normally through Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.

decided to install XAMPP on local PC

then following traditional instructions to enable and install MultiSite

… did you notice this section of the above-noted instructions? 🙂

http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network#Restrictions

“(Note that you can create a domain-based network on your local machine for testing purposes by using your hosts file to map some other hostnames to the IP address 127.0.0.1, so that you never have to use the hostname localhost.)”

Try this:

– using FTP or the file manager of your hosting account, delete the existing .htaccess file
– go to Setting > Permalinks > choose one of the default settings (perhaps Post name) > Save Changes (this will re-generate the .htaccess with the selected values)
– refresh the site and check the links

To clarify, you edited the siteurl and home fields in wp-options with:

http://localhost/localdirectory … note that you require the http://

WordPress is a website framework which requires both a web server and database server to operate. It is not an executable program that one “double-clicks” to “run”.

Typically, it is installed on a remote hosting account which provides the necessary web and database servers.

One is also able to install this environment locally on their own computer by using one of the available free local server AMP “stacks” (Apache – web server, MySQL – database server, PHP – programming language). Many are available for the various operating systems and some also include the ability to install WP as part of their own installation.

Some of the popular ones are XAMPP, WAMPServer, Uniform Server (Windows) and MAMP, XAMPP for Mac OS.

Installing WP into one of these local servers is generally used to test plugins and themes and to just get the hang of using WP. Some folk use this method to create and test a complete site and then move it to a live, remote hosting account.

To summarize, you need a compatible hosting environment, either local or remote into which you install WP by:

– creating a new, empty database
– upload (or copy if local) the unzipped files and folders of the WP download
– start the WP installation process

Note that all of this is done via your favorite web browser 🙂

If you want to use Jetpack, you have to create an account on WordPress.COM in order to do so, and it must use the URL of the site that will be using Jetpack. Each site that you want to use Jetpack with will require it’s own .COM account.

Personally, this is the main reason I find alternative plugins for similar functionality provided by Jetpack.

When manually editing/adding a user in the database using phpMyAdmin, you have to select MD5 from the drop down for varchar(64) for user_pass.

In other words, enter the desired password in the Value box, then select MD5 from the drop down, then click Go

The user name and the pass word were for the data base

Yes, you enter this information at the beginning of the install, along with the database name, database host and table prefix, etc.

YOU enter the dashboard login at the last screen of the install where it asks for the site title, email address, whether or not to allow search engines to index this site, etc., along with the Username and Password, twice 🙂