[Klug-general] Relocating my blog?

[Sharon Kimble]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:14:41 +0100
Laurence Southon <laurence at southon.uk.net> wrote:

> On 14/10/13 23:56, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > I can install wordpress from the debian repo, which will also pull
> > in php5, mysql, and apache2, thereby filling all the requirements.
> 
> You can install the Debian package, but I'd advise against doing that.
> 
> Because of Debian policy you will lose some WP functionality, eg
> installing plugins from the WP backend cannot be done as the plugin
> files must be put in place by root. There are other annoyances that I
> cannot remember.
> 
> Even if you don't want any plugins now, you probably will later.
> 
> Installing from source is not difficult, and is very well documented:
> 
> http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
> 
Thanks Laurence. I'm already running wordpress so am well used to
installing themes and plugins, and I use quite a few too.

The debian wordpress themes that it installs are 'twentythirteen' and
'twentytwelve'. And the plugins that it installs is 'akismet' only. Not
a lot of choice there really. 


Sharon.
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