Let’s say you finished your theme (design, coding, implementing to wordpress), tested all features on your local host, thought it’s ready, installed wordpress to your host and uploaded your theme design. This entry is about things you shouldn’t forget to do beyond this point.

1- Importing The Pages

You can export the pages you designed (and posts, if you have any as well as categories, tags) from your local host to import to WP at your host. Expand the Tools dropdown menu at your admin panel, and select export, and import the exported file to your “on air” wordpress by selecting import option from the same menu. (You can create your page templates at your host and copy and paste your pages’ code too, if you like it old school =))

2- Activating The Widgets

I suggest you to do this next, unless you like seeing empty tiny boxes instead of widgets =) Expand the options under the appearance at sidebar of the admin panel, select widgets, and at the top right of the widgets panel, you’ll see a dropdown menu of sidebars you defined. Start activating the widgets you want to be active at each sidebar by selecting the sidebars from the dropdown menu and adding the widgets from the left to each sidebar and also remember to change the widget titles, if you changed of any at your local host.

3- Updating The Internal Links

Ok, I don’t think you ppl are stupid but, if you left your local host active (like i did lol), as you guess, you see the navigation works perfectly, images you used at your pages and posts are in their places, while others can’t. So don’t forget to update your navigation links and internal links to your images, javascript files etc.

4- Changing The Settings

I suggest you to also remember modifying the WP settings (general, writing, reading, permalinks… etc) to make them same as the ones you used to at your local host.

These are a few issues i remember that should be done after installing WP to the host. If you have any further suggestions, or any shorter ways of the ones i mentioned, please let me know. Cheers =)

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