So I engage with a website developer but due to lack of support decided to try doing it myself.
They provide with login details to cPanel and dewaweb wordpress manager and what I need is to edit some text of the website homepage.
However i couldn't find the page html file where i should do the editing in public_html. All i can see is the php and image files. the Wordpress manager also only shows media editing and does not have text/html edit function.
What should I do? i wonder if it's something to do with permission or if it's my unfamiliarity with Wordpress.
I'm new to Wordpress, cPanel and web hosting in general. Used hostgator before but it was more straightforward than this.
[cPanel File Manager Public_html does not have .html file][1]
[dewaweb wordpress manager only showing media, no text editing][2]
If I understood you well you need to edit your site, you should edit it inside the Wordpress. not through a cPanel. Wordpress has its own builder and you don't actually need to edit HTML files by your self. Try asking for login info to your wp installation and edit needed page there.
Hope it helps and correct me if I'm wrong
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I have a wordpress website, I created a customized php template to the homepage and loaded from the back-end in the template page settings.
During the last months everything was working perfectly when I change anything to the template code effects the homepage without any problems.
Suddenly, yesterday when I tried to upload a updated file, nothing changed on the homepage.
I remove the browser cache, and wordpress cache, used another device to check, without any luck.
The wordpress black admin tools bar appears on all sites pages so I can edit and control this page, but it's not appears on the homepage.
For sure I checked again the theme settings for the homepage and page template settings, and everything is correctly configured.
I tried to activate another theme, the surprise that I found the homepage still the same and all other pages changed to the new theme.
I am losing my mind due to this, and I don't understand what may happened.
Download your site on your computer and see whether it happens also on your own computer when simulating with XAMPP.
Are you sure that the new added files are really being uploaded to the server? did you check it up with downloading the files? Maybe the modified files could not been uploaded? Another thing would be that some new installed plugins are making those problems. Have you installed some new plugins like a plugin which are speeding up your wordpress site? There are some popular plugins which speed up your site with caching your whole site and working as a CDN.
Since i dont know which modification you do on your website it is difficult to find a solution. If those modifications are changes of articles then look into the database.
You could look into the SQL Database whether those new information are being saved. E.g. you try to post a new article. Is this article being saved in the SQL database? Do you see any errors on the page? Does this effect each page / section of your website or is it only for a specific module e.g. "image uploader"??
Did you try to replace a simple image on your site with another image ? Can you see the difference on the website? I would start with little steps to be sure whether this is a server issue, template issue or sth with unsufficient priviliges. There were also new wordpress updates, maybe they affected your template? Another thing would be to recover your complete site from a backup and see whether it works like before and be sure that your site has not been hacked.
I know we are allowed to used the themes from wordpress and edit them in the theme editor.
However, working in the theme editor is really annoying. Does anybody know if there is a way to download an entire theme file from Wordpress, so that I can customize it in the editor on my laptop?
thanks for the help
You can use Download Plugins and Themes from Dashboard plugin. it's provides a "download link" in theme's detail page.
While #mohammad's answer is correct, I find it best not to clutter a site with unnecessary plugins, what works best is if you login to your server via FTP or your host's cPanel and download the files that way. It keeps your Wordpress install clean of anything that won't be used too frequently.
If you have any questions on how to do this, your host will be able to guide you without issue.
There are multiple solutions to this problem, you can change theme files through the FTP/SFTP account using Filezilla. or you can access your CPanel account go to the File manager and access your file easily. Other then that you can clone your website to your laptop through any migratory tool after that you can configure your website to the localhost and just make changes in Theme according to your requirement from the Xamp/Wamp folder at your system.
I already designed a layout, see the picture below.
I want to integrate Wordpress into my layout, I downloaded Wordpress and already installed it: I put the wordpress folder inside XAMPP's htdocs. My website folder is studentportal.com.
I don't know how to start, I don't have any ideas to integrate Wordpress to my own customized site. I'm new to HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, and Wordpress.
After installing the wordpress(should mention db name password etc when it's asked or should customise wp-config file in your wordpress folder), you will be able to access the backend of your website through the www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
There are different ways to create pages and posts(where we enter the data). So it's better to go through wordpress tutorials. I can help you by providing a tutorial file, from which I studied the wordpress(mail me, if it's required: vivek.kjk#gmail.com). There are many sites which provide the tutorials for wordpress. Just try Googling, you will find a good one for sure. So that you can learn the basics of wordpress. Good Luck :)
If I understand correctly you want to make a wordpress website with your layout.
You have to create a own Theme with your layout files
You have to change the name of your wordpress folder to studentportal.com
I'm having a serious problem. I have wordpress 3.9 installed on my server. the problem is that my website front end loads good, but my back end just loads text :
I have updated/reinstalled wordpress but nothing has happend. What should I do?
Thanks for help.
I'm 100% sure that if you simply do the following, you'll figure out what's wrong and fix it.
Deactivate all plugins without use of your WP-Admin.
Activate them, 2 or 3 at a time, and determine which plugin is the culprit
If none of these plugins are the culprit, go to the WordPress site and download WordPress. With an FTP utility such as FileZilla or another client if you already have one, then upload the entire wp-admin folder to your server, overwriting older files.
Your WordPress admin will be fine after these steps. And of course, never alter any core WordPress files -- ever. The only files you should ever tinker with are files in your child theme, which is something you should be using.
Would be great to have a bit more information about this topic. First of all: Is this a new problem respectively did the admin run without errors before? (3.9 sounds like the page is not a new clean install).
Usually I would start debugging the page via e.g. firebug => Check the Stats of the CSS-Files.
If they load correctly (200) check if they are empty or incomplete (Incompleteness can be checked via diff against the original file ... most IDEs will handle that for you)! If they aren't you have probably just diabled CSS in your browser for the URL of the admin-panel.
If they don't load, try to check why! If the files exist its most probably an error in your .htaccess (wrong rewrite, blocked directory, etc.).
I have a plugin from Telarus called GeoQuote. It's a lead generation plugin for their agents, and I'm trying to help an agent get the plugin working on his WordPress site. I have all the php files and the css file in a separate folder.
My question is, how do I get it on the website now? I tried the WordPress plugin installer, but it didn't work.
I'm assuming I can upload the files to the hosting server with FTP and then use php code to call on the plugin in the widget area I created in WordPress. But I don't know what kind of code to use.
Can someone help walk me through this or at least point me in the right direction? Thanks for your help.