Template generated table– how to access and edit?

  • d_erik

    (@d_erik)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    I’m pretty much a novice with WP and coding in general. I’ve been thrown into having to update a small store website built in WP. What I’m seeing is very confusing to me and I wonder if I’m missing something. I’m on a Mac, 10.10, WP 4.2.2.

    I need to edit some content, but the content is almost entirely generated inside a page template. I can access the page template PHP code in Appearance > Editor, but the part of the content (a database driven table, as far as I can tell from the resulting code) where the text I want to change is in an include file (reads as: include ‘services_list.inc’;).

    How the heck do I access “services_list.inc”? Most other pages in the site function in the same way, but I figure if I can gain an understanding of this Services page, the others will fall in line too.

    I should also mention that I didn’t originally build the site (obviously). The business owner can no longer reach the firm that did. The .inc file must exist on the web server side, but I’m still trying to get access to that. But even if I do gain access to it, I’m not sure how it is that I edit it through WP or otherwise.

    Perhaps I have bitten off more than I can chew here….

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  • shepsta

    (@shepsta)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    In wordpress, you rarely have to look at the actual php code. Nothing you see on the site is ever generated by hardcoding php.
    Its a database driven CMS, main components in the Admin area are the Theme and Plugins.
    If you browse around the left menu in Admin, you will probably discover the plugin they used to generate the table.
    If you provide the site and page name, sometimes can derive the theme used, and plugin name used for the table from there.

    Forgot to mention, everything you see on the site is on the “pages” and “posts”.

    Thread Starter d_erik

    (@d_erik)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    I have looked everywhere, under every menu in Admin and I see no clues as to where this data is accessible, nor which plugin was used.

    Under Appearance > Editor, all I see are pages upon pages of code (mostly PHP files of course).

    If I could locate which plugin was used, how do you use the plugin to change information?

    Either WP is prohibitively difficult for a novice web person to understand, or something is seriously screwy with this site backend.

    This is the page in question.

    Everything from “Salon Services” and below is generated within the page template, and then the service/price table auto-assembles from database info from “services_list.inc”.

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