Hi guys,
how can you build something like the interview section of indiehackers? I would like to now just to improve my skills (I'm 17 and I'm learning web development). Is it just like a blog section or something else? If u want to help me, just comment this post or email me at jeanlukes23@gmail.com. Any message could be helpful. Thank u for your time! :)
How to install wordpress.
You are going to need a development environment setup, probably the easiest way for a newbie to do this is something like MAMP or EasyPHP - both of these install MySQL and PHP out of the box if you already know your way around doing that, so much the better. But learning that bit is essential to getting started with a platform like wordpress.
Loads of videos out there for that on Youtube. Here's one for starters:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_YF1sF0jM
Record your mysql database user and password somewhere safe.
To test your local dev environment
<php
phpinfo();
?>
Download from the wordpress.org: https://wordpress.org/download/
Extract the contents into whatever directory you ran the phpinfo file from.
If you've managed to get PHP setup, you'll also need to create a database:
Download a mysql client. TablePlus: https://tableplus.com/
Get successfully connected to your local database. test creating a new database.
https://tableplus.com/blog/2018/06/mysql-create-database.html
Create a new database called wordpress, swap back to the browser where you loaded the php info file (it'll be on localhost on some port).
Follow the on screen instructions for getting wordpress 5 minute install:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ell0SiTZyX8
Voila, you now have wordpress installed on your local machine and can start developing on it.
wp-content/themes/{yourthemename} directory is where all of your files go. Here's a tut on Youtube on how to build a custom theme for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFMgAWkrk8o
You'll need to be reasonably comfortable with PHP to understand what is going on with Wordpress but there are blank starter themes to get you going:
http://html5blank.com/
(this is a boilerplate that gives you a clean slate) - just install it in your themes directory as mentioned earlier, and you can start hacking on it adding features etc
That should be enough to get your teeth into Wordpress development has alot of moving parts to it - if there are fields you need that don't ship with wordpress out of the box, take a look at this plugin:
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/
HTH,
Good luck stick with it, and Youtube everything you don't understand.
Thank u so much!
Just Install wordpress and start publishing the interviews as posts. It's not about the tech, it's about the content (in this case with interviews).
So, my doubt was about the posts, are there just like blog posts? Or are there more efficient ways to treat them?
top navbar, header section, sidenav, list content (pagination)
start building
quick and easy - wordpress
Well, I would like to try building it with MERN stack, probably it is harder but I would like to improve my skills!! Thank u for your time and patience!!!