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1. What is SolidPress?
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation Guide

SolidPress is a modern wordpress template. Reinventing the way in which developers make templates by using the frontend library Solid.JS to build dynamic, easy to manage, and lightweight websites for all of your needs!

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SolidPress is a wordpress template. So to use it you will need to have npm and a way of running wordpress on your local machine. We reccomend using LocalWP which you can learn more about by clicking this link 🔗.

• Install the NPM registry through your terminal

  npm install npm@latest -g

• Install LocalWP onto your machine

  🔗 Click here to go install to LocalWP

Below is how you can get started with developing your new wordpress website using SolidPress! Currently we only have a guide for Windows and MacOS is not supported in full. ( MacOS Guide and release will be coming in the near future! )

1. Open LocalWP on your device ( 🔗 Click here to go install to LocalWP ) and pick the Create a new site option. Then press continue to go to the next page:

2. Once you see the screen below. Create Your Local WordPress Site ( Pick a name for your website ). Then press continue to go to the next page:

3. Once you see the screen below. Click Custom and select your php version ( Recomended: Any PHP version after 8.0.0 ). Select Apache for your web server ( Recomended: Any Apache version after 2.4.0 ). Select MySQL for your database ( Recomended: Any MySQL version after 8.0.0 ). Then press continue to go to the next page:

4. Once you see the screen below. Pick a username and password of your choice. Then fill out what email you want to have connected to the admin account. After these have been filled out to your liking click continue to go to the next page:

5. You now have set up your wordpress website! You should see a screen similar to the one below. Click the Start site button in the top rigt corner of the screen to start your wordpress website.

6. Click the Open site shell button or open the directory of the website into your favorite code editor and or shell and go to the themes directory of your wordress installation.

   wsl

   cd wp-content/themes

7. Once you are in the themes directory. Use the NPX command to install/create your website theme

   npx @solidpress/create-solidpress-starter my-website

8. Open the Wordpress admin panel and navigate to the theme page by going to Appreance -> Themes

9. Once you are in the themes portion of the admin panel activite your new solidpress theme by hovering over the SolidPress Starter Theme and clicking Activate!

10. Click on the Home Icon on the top left of your screen and start developing solid press website!

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SolidPress Starter Theme is an MIT-licensed open-source wordpress template by Simplicity Tech Solutions and contributors:

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