What do you call WordPress widget or post style like so? (and other help needed)

[Morne]

Hi all

Couple of WordPress newbie questions:
1. So with Wordpress I want to on my front page have some thumbnails of completed jobs, then when you click on whichever one, it takes you to the post for that job showing the rest of the images and maybe a short writeup. Is there a specific widget I must load or what? Maybe another way? Never got into WordPress intensively so unsure of what you call the techniques and how to do it.

2. If say for example some jobs have 2 images and some jobs have 5 images, can it randomly select one of those images and crop/scale it to make a thumbnail for the front page? Maybe a theme that has all the heavy lifting done already? (although I prefer to do everything myself, otherwise how else you suppose to learn)

3. And whats the deal with the media library? If I add images and video to a post, why do I need the media library? I see you can upload a bunch of images and video with the media library, do you then when making a new post just write stuff for the post and just select stuff from the media library to be included with that post or how does it work?

4. If I've developed my site locally with XAMPP, how do I make a backup of my whole site? Do I just copy the mysql folder? Same goes for uploading, if I'm ready to go live and upload to my web server, do I just copy the mysql and wordpress folders from htdocs over to my webserver?

[glorybound]

4. If I've developed my site locally with XAMPP, how do I make a backup of my whole site? Do I just copy the mysql folder? Same goes for uploading, if I'm ready to go live and upload to my web server, do I just copy the mysql and wordpress folders from htdocs over to my webserver?

You need to copy the data (via FTP), and your database. I use a service called, "Code Guard")

[Morne]

You need to copy the data (via FTP), and your database. I use a service called, "Code Guard")

yes but which parts is my data physically? is any of my data saved in the wordpress folder, or does everything go into the mysql folder?

[instinct]

Templates etc are in the wordpress folder. If you hacked the core parts then you should not upload that anywhere

Mysql data needs to be dumped and injected. Copying the files wont work. You can also use Wordpress' built-in backup features for that (or was that a plugin? don't remember).

Usually you would:

-install a current vanilla version of wordpress on the server
-install plugins via the admin interface
-install the theme(s) via the admin interface
-Add data (from backup or manually)

Regards,
Thorsten

[glorybound]

the physical data is sitting on the webserver, and not in your database tables. You'll want to download everything in the root of web. You should see wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes. You should also download the files you see just outside of the previously mentioned folders. http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

yes but which parts is my data physically? is any of my data saved in the wordpress folder, or does everything go into the mysql folder?