Code Perspective

This being my first site I’ve set up from top to bottom I wasn’t able to find an install guide for Wordpress using the coda IDE for Mac OS X, so i figured I would write one. To follow this tutorial you will need a full/trial version of coda, the latest Wordpress CMS release, a web server up and running(remote or local). If you’re running a local web server make sure it has all the requirements installed to use Wordpress. That’s it, let’s start it up…

1. The first step is to install Wordpress, if this isn’t done then go ahead and install Wordpress now(a tutorial will be coming on how to do this a bit later ).
2. With coda, create a new site… To do this click on the site’s icon in the menu bar and click “Add Site”).

Click on the site's icon then the add site button

3. Once you have done that and filled out all the information that coda requires to set up your site within the site’s area, you should now see a preview of your site within the site’s area of coda.
4. Double click on your site and it should connect to the web server and display your web server’s file system. It should look something like the picture below(may not be exact depending on your web server’s specifications).

5. Once you can view your site then you should see the root folder /www/ in your server’s root directory. This is where you will be installing Wordpress. Drag the Wordpress folder you downloaded into the /www/ folder. With coda you can directly drag the folder over from your desktop. Once that’s finished you should see a folder in the root of your directory called “Wordpress” or whatever the name of your Wordpress folder was.
6. Rename the Wordpress folder to “blog” or whatever you want the Wordpress CMS to be a part of.

7. Once you have it renamed you should see a bunch of php/css files inside your now renamed Wordpress folder.
8. Wordpress should now be installed for your site. You can access it by going to http://www.your-url.com/blog/. And if you want to make changed as the administrator then access the admin panel by going to your-url/blog/wp-admin/.

That’s it, you can now take advantage of the power of the Wordpress CMS. In a later tutorial i’ll explain how to install and use the JQuery framework within your Wordpress theme.

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Sometimes when Mac OS X becomes unresponsive while writing to a disc or using a disc you can get the spinning beach ball and the disc will not eject. Don’t panic there is an easy way to get it out.

1. Hold down the power button until the computer shuts down
2. Hold down the mouse button while turning on the computer and keep holding it down until the disc ejects.
3. Let the computer boot normally
4. That’s it! You’re done, disc should be out

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My last Mac OS X tip(found Here) allows you to enable hidden folders in Mac OS X. Now if you have hidden folders enabled then you may be wondering what the .DS_Store file is in absolutely every single directory you go to?

The .DS_Store file is actually the way that spotlight is able to find things on your computer as quickly as it can. It indexes your directories whenever something changes, and that’s why when you plug in an external drive, it takes a while for spotlight to find items on it. This is because the .DS_Store file has to index the entire drive before spotlight can start finding anything. This means absolutely every single directory on the drive as well. So beware large drives can take a long time to index.

Hope this helps.

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Ever wondered what’s actually in the application you’re installing on your mac? Or maybe you just want to access some folders that are hidden to configure some options. It’s actually quite simple to do. Here are the few steps necessary to enable hidden folder view in Mac OS X.

1. Open the Terminal(Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
2. Type defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES into the terminal window and press enter.
3. Restart your computer or simply force quit the finder(restarting the finder)

That’s it, you now should see all the hidden folders in you finder.

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