Will FTPing replace my WP files?

  • titidelagato

    (@titidelagato)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    I’m redesigning my website, of which my blog is a subdirectory. I am NOT redesigning the blog itself; I’d like it to stay the same. I use Dreamweaver’s FTP to upload my website. My question is this: when I open the blog’s files (such as the styles files within my theme) on the Remote View in Dreamweaver (presumably those are the files that should me up on my server) I do not see the changes I have been making on the files using the WordPress editor. That makes me think that, after redesigning my site, when I upload it, the blog files will be replaced by files that do not have all the changes I’ve made, and I will have lost weeks of work.

    Why are the blog files of the server not updating like they should, and how can I keep from losing all my work?

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  • MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    15 years, 1 month ago

    If you are trying to make changes to a current site, might I suggest either sticking to the Theme editor, or use something like FileZilla to connect to your site, then right click on a file name and select View/Edit. That way you are editing the real file.

    Might I suggest you invest a few minutes in reviewing WordPress Backups to backup both your site files and database just in case.

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