Website Takeover

  • cweav3r

    (@cweav3r)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    I recently got hired as an intern for a company wanting to change up their website. The creator of the website used WordPress to design it and that’s how it’s maintained. The website is currently hosted by GoDaddy. I have never used WordPress before and I am used to doing webpages by straight code. Is there a way to view the website as a code (HTML) through WordPress? I know it is easy to right click and view source code and work with the code in an editor. But once I manipulate it, is there a way to reflect those changes from my editor onto WordPress?

    Also, is there a tutorial anyone knows of floating around that can give me a basic run down of how to edit the website in WordPress? I was unable to find much other than how to download WordPress and how to host it.

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  • wpgator

    (@wpgator)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    You will need to know PHP if you want to edit the code of a WordPress site. Start here: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons

    You can view code of a WordPress theme via “Appearance” and then “Editor.”

    Styling in WordPess is done with CSS. You’ll find CSS files in the active theme. That’s probably the only truly familiar thing you’ll encounter in WordPress. These sites aren’t built the way HTML sites are. I am not a programmer or designer though, just a regular user.

    Not all WordPress themes require you to edit raw code to make changes. There’s some neat themes out there that let you do amazing things without handling a line of code. You just point and click or check boxes. It all depends on the theme and on what you want to do with it. What does the company use?

    Thread Starter cweav3r

    (@cweav3r)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I haven’t had experience with PHP yet, so thank you for that. CSS is something I am definitely familiar with. Handling the code almost feels easier to me just because it’s what I am familiar with.

    The theme that the company uses has been customized to the extreme, which is why it’s a little difficult on my end. Some of the things that they want to do to start is edit some of the content (which seems self-explanatory), and change some of the banners that are on the pages. Down the road they want to swap out images. I’m having a difficult time locating how to change the visual stuff other than text.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    The theme that the company uses has been customized to the extreme, which is why it’s a little difficult on my end.

    Unfortunately, those are very hard for anyone here to help with either – because there’s no way for people to know how it’s coded or set up.

    In general, images are handled through the media library – though there are exceptions – again, depending on how the theme is coded. You might be able to look at the source code and see the file path to images – which might give you some useful info.

    wpgator

    (@wpgator)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Banners? You mean header logos? The theme may have a section where you can add/remove images like that. Do you at least know the theme name and who the developer is? Developers may have support forums either here or in their own sites.

    Thread Starter cweav3r

    (@cweav3r)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you WPyogi. I figured it’s going to be a lot of self-discovering on my end.

    Yes, header logos. I think the theme is based off of Twenty Fourteen. They have a child theme which is where all the changes happened. I do not know the name of the developer at this point. I know at one point the company had mentioned possibly contacting them to see if they could give some insight as to how everything was put together.

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