Installing it on your site is quite straightforward, although not very easy. The best plugin of all IMHO is “AMP for WP” and you can find it here https://wordpress.org/plugins/accelerated-mobile-pages/

After installing it, you must activate it and follow these steps:

Press Start

Then choose your logo

Select the pages that you want AMP to be enabled. I suggest selecting pages that don’t have any special or weird mechanisms that rely heavily on JavaScript.

Then set your Google Analytics Tracking code

Select your desired style from the 3 pre-installed

And you’re all set!

There are some more thing you can do to refine some settings. Head on to the preferences of the plugin here

On General->Settings page you can change the pages where you want AMP to be enabled. In my case, I only want it for my blog, so this is how it looks like:

I suggest turning on “Meta Tags from Yoast”

Turn on “Minify AMP Page”

Make sure you have Structured data enabled for posts and pages

You can also enable Facebook’s Instant Articles. Just be sure to Re-Save permalink when you enable this option.

Turn on “Mobile Redirection”

On Design->Global page, choose your favorite color palette and add any CSS needed for typography that doesn’t match your main theme

Add Navigation on your AMP pages

Then go to your WordPress Appearance->Menus and add your preferred menu to your AMP theme

As a last step go here https://search.google.com/test/amp and check if one of your pages can be read correctly from Google. If so, it should look like this

Hit “SUBMIT TO GOOGLE” in order to be processed from your Google Console faster. After about 24-48 hours, your search results should show the familiar AMP lightning icon

That’s it!

If you found this article useful, don’t forget to check my channels:
Insta: georgemastro
500px: georgemastro
Twitter: george_mastro

or contact me here https://georgemastro.com/contact/

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I couldn’t find the perfect photography theme/platform until I saw this post https://colormelon.com/free-portfolio-website-tutorial/

It is a clean minimal WordPress theme and it is absolutely free!

What else can you ask? WordPress is pretty easy to handle, and the theme comes with everything I needed.

• Minimal aesthetics
• Focus on content
• Fast and light
• Nice looking gallery
• Pleasent blog
• As clean as it gets

Contact me if you need any help installing it. You could use a developer’s/photographer’s perspective 😉

Extra tip!

The above guide will get you a near perfect site. But if you want to spice it up a bit, be sure to make it SEO friendly and fast. After a few tweaks I managed to get 98/100 on Google Pagespeed Insights.

IMPORTANT! Don’t forget to take care of the security, as WordPress is not very famous for it 😉

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Many custom themes conflict with the javascript from IMCE and the upload button doesn’t appear.

Download themekey module from d.o. (https://www.drupal.org/project/themekey) and enable it.

Then build a rule to use the admin theme on “imce” path like this:

drupal:path = imce -> Seven or in my case Shiny

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Warning: include_once(): Failed opening ‘PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:’) in /usr/bin/phpcs on line 31

Fatal error: Class ‘PHP_CodeSniffer_CLI’ not found in /usr/bin/phpcs on line 34
If you are seeing the above errors when running phpcs (PHPCodeSniffer) first thing you have to do is to make sure you have PHPCodeSniffer installed. To check this just open a Terminal and run:

find / -type f -name 'CLI.php'

If you see in the results something like this …..lib/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php then you have code sniffer installed. In case you haven’t then run sudo pear install PHP_CodeSniffer to install it.

Then all you have to do is to include the folder in your path. Just copy in your clipboard everyhing behind /PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php. In my case it was “/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.26/lib/php” and paste it in your bash profile file which usually is ~/.bash_profile

So just type nano ~/.bash_profile and paste in there something like this:

export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.4.26/lib/php:$PATH

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If you also have this problem please try and run first:

brew upgrade
brew update
Then install command line tools again:
xcode-select --install

If the above fails install it from here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads

Quit all terminal windows, if any and then open a new one.

Now run again
brew install homebrew/php/phplint

As of 2014-06-19 when the above reproduces the error you have to tap gcc, so write:
brew install gcc

If your are still experiencing problems, be sure to check brew doctor for solutions.

EDIT: user ‘droob’ gave a final solution on github!

Just type brew install apple-gcc42 and then try to install phplint again.
If this doesn’t work again try installing with this command:
brew install phplint -cc=apple-gcc42 as user ‘Daisuke Nakai’ commented here.

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grep --include={*.php,*.html,*.htm} -rnl './' -e "text" | xargs -i@ sed -i 's/text/new text/g' @
replacing the extensions you want to be included.

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Want to do it from shell? No problem. Just type:
UPDATE users SET name='admin', pass='$S$Drl0vgZ9yuU9uc4JyaTMHxMPriC7q/PsOUOx52fCrVQSTpI/Tu4x' WHERE uid = 1;

Do you still have Drupal 6? OMG! Are you serious? You have to update immediately! But to update your system just type:
UPDATE users SET name='admin', pass=md5('drupal') WHERE uid = 1;
…in order to revoke your password.

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Solution:
You just have to go to the proper theme folder and run first:
bundle install

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Today I came across with this very weird error message while trying to import my database from shell. Well….it’s not very clear what the heck is going on, but the solution is very simple. You just have to gunzip your sql.gz file before you import it.
So just run
gunzip myfile.sql.gz

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There are actually 4 ways to automatically start ghost automatically.

Some prefer “forever”, take a look here http://blog.nodejitsu.com/keep-a-nodejs-server-up-with-forever/

Other prefer “upstart”, guide here http://www.howtoinstallghost.com/how-to-start-ghost-as-a-service-on-linux/

Another one is “pm2”, http://www.allaboutghost.com/keep-ghost-running-with-pm2/

But I prefer setting up an init script for Linux and in this case CentOS 6.

Here is the Code I’ve used. You should put it in a new file here: /etc/init.d/ghost

#!/bin/sh
#
# ghost - this script starts the ghost blogging package
#
# chkconfig: - 95 20
# description: ghost is a blogging platform built using javascript \
# and running on nodejs
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ “$NETWORKING” = “no” ] && exit 0

home=”/var/www/georgemastro.com/web/”
exec=”/usr/local/bin/node index.js >> /var/www/georgemastro.com/log/ghost.log &”
prog=”ghost”

[ -e /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/$prog

start() {
#[ -x $exec ] || exit 5
echo -n $”Starting $prog: ”
# if not running, start it up here, usually something like “daemon $exec”
export NODE_ENV=production
cd $home
daemon –user=root $exec
retval=$?
echo
[ $retval -eq 0 ] && touch $lockfile
return $retval
}

stop() {
echo -n $”Stopping $prog: ”
# stop it here, often “killproc $prog”
pid=`ps -u $prog -fw | grep $prog | grep -v ” grep ” | awk ‘{print $2}’`
kill -9 $pid > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo_success || echo_failure
retval=$?
echo
[ $retval -eq 0 ] && rm -f $lockfile
return $retval
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

my_status() {
local base pid lock_file=

base=${1##*/}

# get pid
pid=`ps -u $prog -fw | grep $prog | grep -v ” grep ” | awk ‘{print $2}’`

if [ -z “${lock_file}” ]; then
lock_file=${base}
fi
# See if we have no PID and /var/lock/subsys/${lock_file} exists
if [[ -z “$pid” && -f /var/lock/subsys/${lock_file} ]]; then
echo $”${base} dead but subsys locked”
return 2
fi

if [ -z “$pid” ]; then
echo $”${base} is stopped”
return 3
fi

if [ -n “$pid” ]; then
echo $”${base} (pid $pid) is running…”
return 0
fi

}

rh_status() {
# run checks to determine if the service is running or use generic status
my_status $prog
}

rh_status_q() {
rh_status >/dev/null 2>&1
}

case “$1″ in
start)
rh_status_q && exit 0
$1
;;
stop)
rh_status_q || exit 0
$1
;;
restart)
$1
;;
status)
rh_status
;;
*)
echo $”Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}”
exit 2
esac
exit $?

Make sure you give the file proper permissions
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ghost

Then the only thing you have to do is type
service ghost start

And finally you just have to set this script to run on every reboot of your server.
chkconfig --levels 235 ghost on

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