Title: Website Takeover
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Website Takeover

 *  [cweav3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cweav3r/)
 * (@cweav3r)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/)
 * I recently got hired as an intern for a company wanting to change up their website.
   The creator of the website used WordPress to design it and that’s how it’s maintained.
   The website is currently hosted by GoDaddy. I have never used WordPress before
   and I am used to doing webpages by straight code. Is there a way to view the 
   website as a code (HTML) through WordPress? I know it is easy to right click 
   and view source code and work with the code in an editor. But once I manipulate
   it, is there a way to reflect those changes from my editor onto WordPress?
 * Also, is there a tutorial anyone knows of floating around that can give me a 
   basic run down of how to edit the website in WordPress? I was unable to find 
   much other than how to download WordPress and how to host it.

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 *  [wpgator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpgator/)
 * (@wpgator)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/#post-5926477)
 * You will need to know PHP if you want to edit the code of a WordPress site. Start
   here: [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons)
 * You can view code of a WordPress theme via “Appearance” and then “Editor.”
 * Styling in WordPess is done with CSS. You’ll find CSS files in the active theme.
   That’s probably the only truly familiar thing you’ll encounter in WordPress. 
   These sites aren’t built the way HTML sites are. I am not a programmer or designer
   though, just a regular user.
 * Not all WordPress themes require you to edit raw code to make changes. There’s
   some neat themes out there that let you do amazing things without handling a 
   line of code. You just point and click or check boxes. It all depends on the 
   theme and on what you want to do with it. What does the company use?
 *  Thread Starter [cweav3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cweav3r/)
 * (@cweav3r)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/#post-5926573)
 * I haven’t had experience with PHP yet, so thank you for that. CSS is something
   I am definitely familiar with. Handling the code almost feels easier to me just
   because it’s what I am familiar with.
 * The theme that the company uses has been customized to the extreme, which is 
   why it’s a little difficult on my end. Some of the things that they want to do
   to start is edit some of the content (which seems self-explanatory), and change
   some of the banners that are on the pages. Down the road they want to swap out
   images. I’m having a difficult time locating how to change the visual stuff other
   than text.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/#post-5926591)
 * >  The theme that the company uses has been customized to the extreme, which 
   > is why it’s a little difficult on my end.
 * Unfortunately, those are very hard for anyone here to help with either – because
   there’s no way for people to know how it’s coded or set up.
 * In general, images are handled through the [media library](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Images)–
   though there are exceptions – again, depending on how the theme is coded. You
   might be able to look at the source code and see the file path to images – which
   might give you some useful info.
 *  [wpgator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpgator/)
 * (@wpgator)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/#post-5926603)
 * Banners? You mean header logos? The theme may have a section where you can add/
   remove images like that. Do you at least know the theme name and who the developer
   is? Developers may have support forums either here or in their own sites.
 *  Thread Starter [cweav3r](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cweav3r/)
 * (@cweav3r)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-takeover/#post-5926650)
 * Thank you WPyogi. I figured it’s going to be a lot of self-discovering on my 
   end.
 * Yes, header logos. I think the theme is based off of Twenty Fourteen. They have
   a child theme which is where all the changes happened. I do not know the name
   of the developer at this point. I know at one point the company had mentioned
   possibly contacting them to see if they could give some insight as to how everything
   was put together.

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