Title: Getting a wordpress site functioning
Last modified: September 22, 2017

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# Getting a wordpress site functioning

 *  [praxidice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/praxidice/)
 * (@praxidice)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-a-wordpress-site-functioning/)
 * I’ve been tearing hair out in chunks over a wordpress site created by someone
   who claimed to know what she was doing but who isn’t available right now to toubleshoot
   problems with it.
 * Note particularly that I have built a lot of pure html websites but I haven’t
   a clue in the world about wordpress and / or PHP, and I can’t find any information
   created for people who don’t know where to start.
 * Is there any entry level information with pedantic details of every step ? and
   where perchance can I find same ?
 * As far as I can tell, all the necessary files are present in public_html, but
   attempts to login to domainname/wp_admin timeout. I gather that I do need to 
   login this way to check the setup. Where should I look for information ? Since
   I can’t login to wordpress, I don’t even know what version of wordpress I have.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgetting-a-wordpress-site-functioning%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-a-wordpress-site-functioning/#post-9519470)
 * Documentation: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page](https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page)
 *  Thread Starter [praxidice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/praxidice/)
 * (@praxidice)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-a-wordpress-site-functioning/#post-9522409)
 * Thanks for the response but I’d already been there and found it inadequate for
   my needs. It might be OK for someone with considerable WordPress experience as
   a refresher, but there is far too much not said for someone with no experience,
   especially if they have as massive workload and scarce time available. The site
   is for a non-profit advocacy organization that doesn’t need any bells and whistles…
   simplicity, reliability and ease of editing are the orders of the day. In previous
   lives I’ve resorted to writing my own documentation as that was the only way 
   to ensure all the missing bits were included, unfortunately I just don’t have
   the time to stuff around at present … I need to get this website up yesterday
   and given that it looks like it would take me a week with WordPress, I’d do better
   re-coding the thing in html which I could do in a few hours.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [praxidice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/praxidice/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-a-wordpress-site-functioning/#post-9522409)
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