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Solved. I was looking at another plugin.

PS: It looks like my default avatar is loaded by gravatar. I followed the URL (very long and cryptic) and it doesn’t look like I would be able to change the image since I don’t have “write” permission wherever it is… But thanks for the thought!

Thank you, but I prefer not to add any more plugins and NOT use code. I simply want to replace WordPress’s mystery man with my own.

I looked into Settings > Discussion but didn’t see where I could add a default gravatar… I only saw the radio buttons to select from what’s already there.. And, I prefer not to use code. Can’t I just swap the WP’s default image since I’m not going to use it for this site?

Thanks!

Hi Esmi,

Thank you for your reply. Sorry, I still can’t find it. SInce I have permalinks, i.e. my_site.com/Contact, the only thing that shows when I hover with the mouse over the page is “Edit “/Contact”” not a numeric ID… I need a numeric ID to create an exception for the social buttons to not be displayed on the Contact page (plugin doesn’t take “Contact” as an ID).

Would appreciate your assistance!

Thank you.

Impact Page Builder. I also downloaded Headway theme. All new to me. As a non-programmer, I look for tools that use visual editors as much as possible while I’m learning html, css, php (all in w3schools.com) and WordPress.

Hi James,

I ended up to completely re-installing XAMPP because I was concerned that I didn’t document everywhere I changed the security. I also downloaded BatChmod – thank you!

I am on the step of the installation where XAMPP suggests to tighten the security. Here’s the screen:
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These XAMPP pages are accessible by network for everyone UNSECURE
Every XAMPP demo page you are right now looking at is accessible for everyone over network. Everyone who knows your IP address can see these pages.

MySQL is accessible by the network UNSECURE
This is a potential or at least theoretical security leak. And if you’re mad about security you should disable the network interface of MySQL.

The phpMyAdmin user pma has no password UNSECURE
phpMyAdmin saves your preferences in an extra MySQL database. To access this data phpMyAdmin uses the special user pma. This user has in the default installation no password set and to avoid any security problems you should give him a passwort.

The MySQL user root has no password UNSECURE
Every local user on Mac OS X box can access your MySQL database with administrator rights. You should set a password.

The FTP password for user nobody is no langer ‘xampp’ SECURE
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Which of these areas and what security codes should I change to be able develop WordPress locally, including writing to MySQL, while preventing hacking from the outside?

Appreciate your thoughts!

James, thank you!!

I was just wondering if I simply drag and drop the theme into the /wp-content/themes/ directory, then when I use the theme it may still have a problem writing in some of the sub-directories. The reason I am thinking that is because even though I changed the permissions for a parent directory XAMPP, the XAMPP/wordpress and XAMPP/wordprress/wp-content still had read only permissions… What other directories/sub-dirs permissions I might need to change when I work with the theme?

When the synchronization of the pieces is so manual, It just seems so prone to unexpected errors… What are your thoughts for someone who is not a programmer? Thanks again!

PS: I was using MAMP for a short time and it was very user-friendly and I had no problem with permissions – all automated and synchronized. But one of the plugin tools that I am using seems to be not very compatible with it, so this is why I am moving to XAMPP.
PPS: Thanks for the link to BatChmod. It looks very cool. I’ll keep it in mind when I’m in the Bat mod… 🙂