Title: WordPress Filezilla Questions
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# WordPress Filezilla Questions

 *  [john8272013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john8272013/)
 * (@john8272013)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955563)
 * 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](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [john8272013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john8272013/)
 * (@john8272013)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955571)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955573)
 * 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](http://example.com/wp-login.php)
 * Here’s lots of info about using WP:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons)
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955574)
 * 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](http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/how-to-install-wordpress)
 *  Thread Starter [john8272013](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john8272013/)
 * (@john8272013)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955575)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955583)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john8272013/)
 * (@john8272013)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-filezilla-questions/#post-5955588)
 * Alright, that is great. Thank you very much for your help.

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