I asked him if he had time for a screen share to help me and being the swell guy that he is, he agreed. Ok…that was fun, but do I now have an FTP server running? And if so, what’s my login name and password?īack to Slack, and this time Troy Shimkus jumped into the conversation. I ran the command to install and it spit the usual volume of glop on screen. I posted my question to our Slack group inside the Programming By Stealth channel where the loveliest nerds hang out.Īllister Jenks sent me the same osxdaily article on inetutils so I figured I’d just girl-up and install it. ![]() I found instructions on how to download and install inetutils on /… via homebrew but it looked scary. I went to the googles and found articles explaining that macOS in the old days had a built-in FTP server, but if you needed one on the modern version of macOS you’d need to install it yourself. I entered the IP address of the machine I was on and then tried my local login but when that didn’t work, I was stuck. I had no idea why it would need that and what the heck my username and password would be. ![]() I was surprised to see it pop up a button that asked for my FTP username and password. I did a search for Jetpack and hit the install button. Inside WordPress you can install plugins directly. The easiest (in theory) plugin to use is called Jetpack. But if you build your own WordPress like I did, you need a plugin. If you have a site (the free service where they build WordPress for you), there’s a simple switch to turn on Markdown. In order to use Markdown in MarsEdit, you have to enable Markdown in WordPress. I think my favorite thing about Markdown is how much easier it is to make bulleted lists. Instead of angle brackets and arcane commands like a href for a link, Markdown uses square brackets and round brackets that make the text readable and easier to see your mistakes. But for a lot of simple things, there’s a much cleaner and more human-readable language available to us. This is the language the web is built on. So to put in a link I had glop like and much much worse for the more complex things I was demonstrating. I did a lot of the tutorial while using HTML as the language to write the blog posts. Teaching MarsEditĪt this point I was able to connect my fancy new localhost blog to MarsEdit and I got to work on the tutorial. The full path to the WordPress installation is localhost:8888/wordpress where 8888 is the port number, but the important thing to note is the localhost part, which will be important much later in the story. You’ll notice that the url for your locally hosted website is called “localhost”. With MAMP, you have to “turn on” the servers, then it opens a web page with a link to your fancy new WordPress installation. This is not an exaggeration, in 5 minutes you’ve got WordPress installed and ready to go. If you start at /… (which is totally different from ), you can download WordPress and do their “famous 5-minute installation”. Now it’s time to download and install WordPress inside this fancy new MAMP installation. This gives you an Apache web server, a MySQL database, and the php programming language, all on the Mac. To do this, you first install an application called MAMP from which is also free. It would be free and would be independent of Internet access and speeds so it was a perfect solution. ![]() I could have created a free account on /… which could have been fun.īut there’s another easy and free method, and that’s to create an instance of WordPress right on my Mac. I could have created another instance of WordPress on my site (I think), or I could have rented a server for $5-10 through a service like /…. When I embarked on this project, I had to figure out a way to demonstrate the tool without throwing up a bunch of glop blog posts on. It works with different blogging systems, but since WordPress is the dominant player and it’s what I use, I decided to demonstrate it with WordPress. I’ve been finding some delicious nuggets I’d never noticed until I went through every option on every single menu. One of the great things about doing tutorials is how much you’re forced to learn, even if it’s about an app you’ve been using for years. It’s beautifully designed and really capable. It’s a fabulous tool that makes blogging much easier. MarsEdit is what I use for writing everything you see on. This week I’ve been working on a video tutorial for ScreenCasts Online on the tool MarsEdit from /….
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