You’ll have to be a little more clearer about what you need.
Has WordPress been installed online? Or is it just on your home computer?
If it’s on a home computer only obviously you need to be on that machine.
If it has been installed online you will need the URL where it is located and whatever password your friend setup to access it.
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pixies
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thank you for replying so quickly. i can access wordpress via the URL of my website and have a password to login. the instructions for wordpress confuse me a little since i dont have any files locally, how do i use the instructions in this case? think i’m a little confused :/
Before we go any further, what’s the url? Is it a wordpress.com site, or are you on your own domain?
-tg
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pixies
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wordpress is running on my own website, so if i open my website on the browser it shows up as the wordpress blog
thanks, barbara
So how was it installed onto your website?
-tg
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pixies
(@pixies)
it was installed from another computer that isnt connected to mine, my own pc hasnt got wordpress installed. the reason for that was because i didnt know how to so it was done for me, just from another pc than mine…
Nooooowwww it all makes sense….. OK, at *some* point you will need to have a local copy of the files, typicaly this is going to be the set of files downloaded before installing. These are also going to be the files you should work on before uploading them to the server (or where ever it’s going to be).
What you will probably want to do is get a hold of an FTP client of some kind (SmartFTP, WS_FTP, among others) and download what’s on the server onto your local machine somewhere.
Then you’ll be able to work on the files. When you are done, you can then upload them back to the server and check it out.
-tg
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pixies
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ahhhh i have just looked on my ftp (i use filezilla) and have found all the wp-files :)))
so, when i alter them (or just individual ones) and reupload them will they just overwrite the existing ones?
you have already been of great help to me – thank you!
so, when i alter them (or just individual ones) and reupload them will they just overwrite the existing ones?
That’s the idea.
-tg
You might be better off to delete the files to modify first (and keep a BASCKUP), then upload the new ones.
Sometimes overwritting old files will corrupt the files.
