Helford River Sailing Club

The purpose of this section is to satisfy the curiosity of anyone who would like to know more about how The Helford River Sailing Club website works. The HRSC website is constructed using WordPress, an Open Source publishing platform that relies upon a scripting language called PHP and uses a MySQL database. The site is hosted at 1and1.co.uk on a Linux platform with an Apache server. This combination of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, often referred to as LAMP, is the preferred choice of web developers who prefer to keep out of the clutches of Microsoft and use ‘open source’, and therefore free, solutions. WordPress is primarily a blogging system but it can be quite readily adapted to content management by using an appropriately constructed theme and some well chosen plugins. The WordPress theme system allows a developer to create custom page templates and stylesheets that determine how the site operates and how it looks, all without modifying the core of the system. Our theme is based on Kadence. A child theme is used to allow customisation.