LyleChamney

When I hover over the WAMPServer icon, it says its offline. Is this important?

Yes. It has to say Online and the ‘W’ icon needs to be green.

AFAIK, WAMP will only run as a Windows Service and not as regular ‘program’, that is, when you double click the wampmanager.exe to start it, it should start the two Windows Services wampapache and wampmysqld. The ‘W’ icon should go from red to orange to green.

However, if for some reason those two services have been disabled, doing the above will never work. You will have to manually enable them via Task Manager > Services > Services.

If you are using the MAMP defaults, that is, port 8888 and htdocs as the document root, then you should be able to access your site with:

http://localhost:8888/name_of_folder_in_htdocs and the log in at:

http://localhost:8888/name_of_folder_in_htdocs/wp-admin` or

http://localhost:8888/name_of_folder_in_htdocs/login.php`

The vid shows the “old way” of editing the wp-config-sample file, which can and does lead to all sorts of problems. The best way, which works every time with MAMP, is to just let the WP install do it for you. At that point in the install, just click the Create Configuration File button and fill out the database connection info with what he provided:

User: root
Pwd: root
DB Name: whatever you used … no spaces in the name
Host: localhost
Table Prefix: wp_ …leave as-is

Did you use TextEdit to edit the wp-config file? If so, may be what the issue is as it’s default setting is to replace the single quotes with ‘smart quotes’, which won’t work. Always use a plain text editor, such as TextWrangler to do so.

Another thing from the vid … he says for the database name “wordpress four oh” but types a zero. Which did you use? 🙂

Then when I shut down

Shut down the Mac or MAMP or both?

If you shut down the Mac and or MAMP, you have to start up MAMP again, every time you shut either one down.

Applications/MAMP/MAMP.app

When the MAMP control panel opens, click Start Servers, once both Apache Server and MySQL Server show ‘green’, the MAMP Start Page should open in your default browser.

Unless you manually deleted them, your site files will be at the location I noted in my previous post.

You’re on the right track! 🙂

However, the two items you linked to happen to be fairly unique.

The first, for some reason, does not display the standard method of adding a ‘regular’ plugin, that is, a plugin from the WP plugin repository or downloaded from another source. That standard method is via the Plugins > Add New in the Dashboard. One generally only resorts to the manual method, described in that plugin’s installation instructions, if the other method fails for some reason.

The second item is not a ‘regular’ plugin, but rather an addition to the core text editor, which is named TinyMCE. If you’ll note the first line of the second paragraph …

This article assumes that you are already familiar with the basics of Writing a Plugin and the Plugin API of hooks and filters.

… probably not ‘new to WordPress’ territory 🙂

Keep on track by adding your site functionality via the Dashboard’s Plugins > Add New and Appearance > Themes > Add New and you will be able to build pretty much whatever you want/need 🙂

@ksbaker1989 – In addition to what catacaustic has mentioned:

It sounds as though you may not be completely familiar with how a WordPress powered website ‘works’. 🙂

1. There is no need to do anything with any other databases; your site’s database is set up and running just fine because you site us up and running. During ‘normal operations’ there is no need to go into the database via phpMyAdmin. If and when you do, the most common reason is to reset the administrator’s password.

2. There is no need for you to have any WordPress files on your own computer; everything is done via the WordPress Dashboard on your site. Again, in ‘normal ops’ one does not edit any file anywhere. Period. 🙂 That said, you can make a copy of your live site and download and run it from your own computer, but that is solely for testing plugins, themes, etc. There is NO synchronization between the local site and the live site. See the codex or Google for “Installing WordPress locally”.

To summarize, for the majority of cases, everything is done via the Dashboard. If you do want to “get more in depth”, you can make edits to the various WP files via the File editor in the Dashboard, but beware, that in doing so, any changes made there can have ‘disastrous’ results if you don’t know what you are doing in addition to potentially having the changes wiped out during the next WP update. Not for the ‘faint-hearted’ 🙂

Cheers!
Lyle

One method that may work is to use the lite (free) version of the Beaver Builder page layout plugin:

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

If the mp3s will be on the same page, it’s a snap to duplicate the previous entry, then change the audio file and text.

If they are on different pages/posts, then there are a couple options:
1) copy and paste the previous entry to a new one, then edit as required
2) spring for the Standard Version of BB (paid) where you can easily create a template for this that can be easily added wherever needed.

With both versions, you can easily add your custom class names to the module where the player and text are presented and then add the required CSS wherever you do so; the customized look will appear wherever those class names are added.

If you made a change to the pwd in the wp_users table in the db, and set it to a readable value, e.g. mynewpassword, then you have to set the type as MD5 (select from the drop down list in the user_pass varchar(64) and then click Go.

Then you do have to edit the pwd to this new value (mynewpassword, or whatever the readable version is) in wp-config.php.

NOTE: make any edits to this type of file in a plain text editor, such as NotePad and NOT in a word processor, such as MS-Word.