Child Theme

Create a child theme to prevent the overwrite custom changes to the parent theme.

1. Create a directory for the child theme named <parent theme name>-Child
2. Create these files in the child theme's directory: DevFecta WordPress Child Theme Files
   • functions.php
   • style-login.css
   • style-login.js
   • style.css
   • screenshot.jpg for child theme thumbnail (1200 x 900 pixels)
   • favicon.png for Gravatar/Favicon (512 x 512 pixels)
3. Upload these files to the /wp-content/uploads directory for custom background and logo on the WordPress login page:
   • LoginLogo.png (512 x 512 pixels)
   • LoginBackground.png (2880 x 1923 pixels)

Configuration

Permissions

Change WordPress directory ownership to www-data to make any updates and/or installations:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data <WordPress Directory>

sudo chown -R <username>:www-data <WordPress Directory>

sudo chmod -R g+w <WordPress Directory>

sudo chown -R <username>:www-data <WordPress Directory>/wp-content/uploads

Pretty URLs Configuration

sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo systemctl restart apache2

sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf  // To change "Directory /var/www/" AllowOverride to All