WordPress Filezilla Questions

john8272013
(@john8272013)

11 years, 1 month ago

Okay, so I am a new wordpress user starting a website and I am confused about FTP filezilla. After starting filezilla and transferring all of the wordpress data from the htdocs folder (put there for Mamp) into the public_html folder, I am still not seeing anything on the website. Is this because the domain has not propagated yet? Also, do I have to transfer the files from local host to remote site everytime I blog a post?
Thanks

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WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

11 years, 1 month ago

If you have a site on a live server, you generally do all of your work directly on that site via a browser. The local site isn’t connected to the server – WP isn’t really designed to sync or to move content frequently.

What’s the domain name on the server?

Did you follow this?

https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

Thread Starter john8272013
(@john8272013)

11 years, 1 month ago

Is the server the same thing as the host? My host is hostgator and domain is whoafacts.com and I am using filezilla to upload the files from the local site to the remote site. Are you saying that I can create posts through WP-dashboard and it will automatically show up on the site?

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

11 years, 1 month ago

Yep, server is the same as the host. And yes, you should be doing all of your work via a browser to access the site on Hostgator?

You should be able to login to that site via:

http://example.com/wp-login.php

Here’s lots of info about using WP:

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

11 years, 1 month ago

Sorry, missed that you posted the domain name – I don’t see WP installed on your site there at all – have you done so?

http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/how-to-install-wordpress

Thread Starter john8272013
(@john8272013)

11 years, 1 month ago

Oh, what I did was install wordpress separately and I thought that they would connect somehow. I think I see now how it works, but does that mean I don’t need filezilla? or FTP? are those for non-wordpress sites?

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

11 years, 1 month ago

Sometimes you may need FTP access to your site, for various reasons such as manually installing Themes, or plugins or if there’s a problem that makes it impossible to access your site via the Dashboard. So it’s definitely good to have that set up, but for regular WP use, you don’t need to use it.

Thread Starter john8272013
(@john8272013)

11 years, 1 month ago

Alright, that is great. Thank you very much for your help.

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