Modifying a working blog is always a pain in the arse, one mistake to a style sheet and everything is screwed up. Plus figuring out themes and plug ins can be a royal mess. What you need is a staging area so you can test things out. I usually use my old Mac G3 running PHP and MySQL to see how things work. If you don’t have a second computer you can follow these instructions and go to town with the mods and never have to worry about screwing up the production site.
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