Add pages from local wordpress to website wordpress

  • billh65

    (@billh65)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi. I’m new to wordpress but I’ve got my locally installed setup working on my PC now so I can experiment with it. My query is, if I create a page locally that I think is good how do I add it to my internet hosted webpage? I know how to transfer files with ftp so no problem with getting it up there but I don’t know what I have to do to actually insert it into my web based wordpress site. Do I click on add page, because this seems to just add a blank page, or is there an ‘add existing page’ option somewhere? As I said I’m a newbie to wordpress so any advice will be welcome.

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  • Machine2240

    (@machine2240)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Bill,

    I am not aware of anyway to sync the post between your local version and live version other than to recreate the content from your local copy in the live version. There are some articles about using the same database on and offline, but I wouldn’t advise that especially if your new to this.

    So, basically in short copy the content out of your offline post and/or page and paste it into a new page or post on your live site. If you have assets you will need to upload them to your live site as well. There is a plugin out there I came across that will grab the assets off your clipboard and upload them to WordPress, but I forgot what it is called you might take a look in the plugins directory if you are going to be doing this a lot. (http://wordpress.org/plugins/)

    Last thing to consider is that you can create a post in your live site without publishing it and still have the ability to preview it prior to posting, so I wouldn’t spend a ton of time in a different installation creating content there only to have to recreate it again.

    There are ways to copy and entire site from offline to online, which I use plugin called Duplicator for, which is great but not for just a couple of post/pages.

    Rich

    Thread Starter billh65

    (@billh65)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Rich. Thanks for the info. I had a feeling that I was going to have to do some copying/pasting, still it was worth a try to see if there was a way. I appreciate the help.
    regards Bill

    The Grey Parrots

    (@greyparrots)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    You can export and impost the post / page / category of local WordPress site and import it on server.

    Thread Starter billh65

    (@billh65)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    OK Thanks grey Parrots for the further info. I’ll take a look at that

    Thread Starter billh65

    (@billh65)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all. I looked into the import/export tools and they look the best options for transferring an entire site. For just a single page though, there is not much choice in selecting it, just by author or date and in version 3.9.1 it doesn’t seem possible to change the author. Changing the date would work. In the event however, I think that, providing there are no awkward attachments etc the copy/paste would be easier for a single (simple) page. Thanks for both the answers and, as I said, they are both good for different circumstances.
    regards
    Bill

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