2021 WP Blog Blocksy theme installation and basic configuration

Following the previous article, WordPress Blog building in 2021, the steps of building WP have been basically covered. After reading, follow the operation can quickly build a high maintainability of their own blog. Long march, we have just completed a small step, is still a small step, after the blog security management, content management, graphic typesetting, is our focus.

preface

Business as usual. At the beginning of the course, let me just say a few words. The function of WP is much more than recording a blog. Through certain optimization, it can support order flow of tens of millions of traffic. You can make a complex business website without even writing a line of code. All you need to do is drag and drop elements and tweak styles on the theme plug-in page. If you are interested in building your own website, please take a careful look at my next content. Building a small blog is really a bit overqualified for WP, which has developed so far.

For a long time, I always thought that the personal website of WP searched on Baidu was the average level of WP. It was not until I found that the international WP had developed to a new height that I suddenly realized that I was wrong for not keeping up with The Times. In order to show you the latest WP technology, I decided to write an article about WP series, and there will be related videos in the future. I have opened nearly 20 various media platforms in one breath. I plan to share all the knowledge I know for free. I hope you can reprint more articles written well. I hope you can point out the bad parts in the comments and make progress together.

All right, back to business. This article focuses on the basic configuration of WP, the basic installation configuration of the Blocksy theme, and the installation and use of plug-ins involved in the process.

Blocksy theme installation

  1. Why Blocksy? In the theme forest, tens of thousands of theme schemes are sold, which are developed by developers, designers, professional companies and WP enthusiasts. They are generally the same form, but have many flaws in the details of how they are used, and are either unpleasant or expensive to use. Combined with our topic selection, we only need a beautified presentation of the blog’s content, so it doesn’t take much effort. The free version of the Blocksy theme is enough.
  2. Enter the background management page of our blog, as shown in the figure.

After clicking on the install theme, search Blocksy, only one result,

It can be enabled immediately after the installation is complete.

Go back to the background home page and you’ll see a message:

Click Install Blocksy Companion. The plugin is highly recommended, so let’s Install it, even if it doesn’t work.

When the installation is complete, refresh the page and click Activate. As follows,

Just skip it. If you are curious, you can also look around.

At this point, the theme is installed. At this point, directly open the main domain name page, you can see,

Now all of a sudden the page is clean. Let’s go back to the background administration page to review and set up some of the necessary configurations.

Checking basic Configurations

1. Time configuration, avoid the time zone problem caused by the article is not correct. Do foreign trade SEO students, can be adjusted according to the local time.

2. Fixed links must be set. It has a big impact on SEO.

3. Access the configuration of 404. If nothing else, any page you visit is now 404, because Nginx does have directional configuration for PHP. Now, let’s solve this problem.

Log in to the pagoda panel and follow these four steps.

The code for,

if (-f $request_filename/index.php){ rewrite (.*) $1/index.php; } if (! -f $request_filename){ rewrite (.*) /index.php; }Copy the code

Once you’ve saved it, you can see the page,

Wait a minute, we seem to have found a small detail, the browser icon is still the default, please configure it.

4. Set the profile picture and website icon

In his profile, he now has only one profile that must be added from Gravatar and cannot be selected from the media question bank. Is not feeling very annoying, very dehumanized, I want to pursue personalized, do not need to do what profile picture authentication.

Now, let’s install a plugin that lets him load images from his media library. Go to plugins and search for User Profile Picture as shown in the figure below:

Use the one pointed to in the diagram. Click Install to activate. If you go back to your avatar, you can see that now you have an option to upload an image.

Now you can add an avatar from the media library. Don’t worry if you get cropped and don’t save when you’re editing an avatar like this.

I checked their official document and found an issue, image cropping problem, they don’t think it is a problem, the solution is to press cropping again, 😂.

When cropping, set the aspect ratio to 1:1 as the head image, adjust the Angle, and then cut again (this is really not a friendly experience, hope they can improve)

At this point to save. Don’t forget the “Update” button on the right, otherwise it won’t work. When we’re done, let’s see what happens,

Next, we set the site icon. Go back to the home page, see the biggest and brightest button, customize your site, and then enter,

You can click on the sun icon to change the style of the left bar. Click site identity to enter the site icon Settings, where you can change the site title, subtitle. Find a simple icon to put up. When you’re done, click Publish

Ok, so far, the theme is installed, the most basic Settings, basically, you have, the more advanced Settings, you need to fill in the content. Now let’s get to the most important part, the use of Gutenberg, WP’s built-in page visualization editor. With good use of him, we can easily put our articles into a beautiful, personalized layout.

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