How to make a blanks Wordpres site

  • Hi all. I’m new to this, so please excuse my dumb questions. I am trying to install WPLMS and the first thing it says is:

    “Setup WPLMS on a fresh WordPress installation. You need a blank WordPress site with latest WordPress version and WPLMS theme.”

    Since WPLMS support does not include installation support, I have come here to try to find out what this means. I created a server locally on my notebook using ServerPress, and downloaded WordPress, installing it on my local server. It appears to come with a default theme for blogging. I assume from the quoted statement above that I can have no theme on my site before uploading the WPLMS theme and associated plug-ins.

    So to get to my questions:

    – How do I create a blank site?
    – Can I make my existing site blank by removing the template? If so, how do I delete the template? I see no delete or remove funcation under Appearance, Themes. I see only themes from which you can select and the Add button.

    Suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Mike

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  • I assume from the quoted statement above that I can have no theme on my site before uploading the WPLMS theme and associated plug-ins.

    WordPress will not work without a theme, so every new WP install comes with the current default theme which is automatically activated on installation. All you should need to do is upload your new theme and activate it. The default theme should remain on your site but inactive – just in case it is ever needed for troubleshooting purposes

    Thread Starter frenette

    (@frenette)

    So, the suggestion that one should start with a “blank site” is not really good wording, I assume?

    I did try uploading the WPLMS theme to my site, along with many plug-ins and it got some odd errors and didn’t work in the end, so I assumed it was because my site was not “blank”.

    I’ll do what Einstein said is a sign of insanity and do the same thing again to see if I get different results. ??

    Thanks for the speedy response, esmi.

    Thread Starter frenette

    (@frenette)

    I tried the install again on a new instance of WordPress and got the same errors. Now my site just pops up a lot of orange colored boxes with errors in them, labelled Notice and Warning. Below are some examples of some of the errors. The theme is in my themes list now, but with all the big orange eorrs messages, the site is now seriously broken. ?? Any advice would be appreciated.

    Notice: bp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 1.7.) in C:\Users\halif\Documents\Websites\corvo.dev\wp-includes\functions.php on line 3897
    Call Stack

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:\Users\halif\Documents\Websites\corvo.dev\wp-includes\functions.php:3897) in C:\Users\halif\Documents\Websites\corvo.dev\wp-content\themes\wplms\includes\func.php on line 398
    Call Stack

    Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in C:\Users\halif\Documents\Websites\corvo.dev\wp-content\plugins\wplms-eventon\includes\init.php on line 267

    So, the suggestion that one should start with a “blank site” is not really good wording, I assume?

    It is a little confusing but it can be hard to define concisely what is needed for a new user. Calling it a “vanilla install” would probably just mystify most people.

    With regard to the error messages you are seeing, these appear to be specific to the theme itself. How exactly did you add the theme to your site?

    Thread Starter frenette

    (@frenette)

    I went into Appearance, Themes, selected Upload, browsed to the WPLMS.ZIP file, and clicked Install. It seemed to install, and is now in my Themes list. It asked me to install a bunch of plug-ins, which I did. Some of them failed for various reasons.

    Not sure where to go from here, and the Support I purchased with the WPLMS Theme doesn’t cover installation support. But I think I followed the directions so far as detailed in the instructions, including modifying the wp-config.php file as outlined in the instructions below.

    At a bit of a loss just now.

    ————–

    To modify the wp-config file in your WP setup follow below steps:

    Locate the root WordPress directory in your server
    Locate the file wp-config.php
    Add below code after the line define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”); in the file and save.

    define( ‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ‘128M’ );

    Some of them failed for various reasons.

    If this commercial theme relies on specific plugins, then you will need to ensure that these are installed & activated. Unfortunately, as you are using a commercial theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s developer/vendor. We do not have access to, nor do we support, commercial products here. from that I can see, there’s nothing obviously wrong in th way that you carried out the installation of the theme, so you really need to now speak to them regarding the various errors that you are seeing.

    With regard to your WP_MEMORY_LIMIT, I’d increase that to 256M.

    Thread Starter frenette

    (@frenette)

    Thanks, esmi. I’ll see what I can do to contact them. The sanity check I gained from your input was helpful. ??

    Glad I could help. I hope that you get this all sorted asap. ??

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