Viewing WP files without WP account

  • Resolved nikkigagency

    (@nikkigagency)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hey guys, I’ve got a client who had a developer deal go south on them. The dev was building the demo site on his own WP account and when they fired him, he just sent over all of the raw .php files. So now they just have a lot of files with no WP account. I’ve built WP sites before for other clients, but never from scratch. I’ve always come in and cleaned up what other devs have left behind.

    So, my question is, without an actual Business plan/account with WordPress, is there any way we can see what work this guy has done? I can see in the code that he’s done work, but for the client, how do I display this on a UI without paying the $300/year for a WP business plan to upload the theme?

    Suggestions?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Was the site built on wordpress.com? Based on what you said, I don’t think so.

    Due to the differences between the various site hosting plans offered at wordpress.com and the self-hosted and self-installed version of WordPress supported here, you should probably ask WordPress.com Support instead.

    If the site is hosted elsewhere, you’ll need to set up hosting for it, but unless you also received a dump of the database (to install on the new site), you’re SOL and will have to start over.

    So, what sort of files did you get?

    Thread Starter nikkigagency

    (@nikkigagency)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    That’s a great question. Unfortunately I’m having to decipher a lot of the fired dev’s departing email chain to my client. Based on what HE said. It sounds like WordPress.org.

    He did send over a full backup of everything he worked on. So I have all of he files. I just don’t have anything to upload it to or host it on. I can put it on an Apache server, but from there, without a WP site/account to upload be theme to, I don’t have any way to show the client the front facing UI and let them you know, “play with it”. Unless, I’m just completely missing something…

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 5 months ago

    You can put up a local site quite quickly with the free Local by Flywheel

    https://local.getflywheel.com/

    Once that’s up, you can import the database and files.

    Note: Local allows you, with one click, to get a URL you can share with your client.

    Thread Starter nikkigagency

    (@nikkigagency)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    This worked perfectly. Thank you Steve!

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