WordPress successfully installed on my PC; Now what?

  • capchap

    (@capchap)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    I have installed MAMP & wordpress on my MAC.
    I want to be able to use wordpress to manage my company website.

    I have been given FTP access to the site and was planning on doing simple download, edit html etc, and upload because it seems to be a simple static site.

    But there are lots of files and appears to be a wordpress site. so I wanted to use wordpress to manage it.

    So, what exactly am I supposed to do to use wordpress to manage this site?
    do I still need to download the site to /applications/MAMP/htdocs (my root location on my MAC) or am I supposed to have a different level of access?

    Thanks
    Don

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    You need to move all of the content over into the new WordPress site. By the sounds of it, I think you will have to do this manually – one Page/Post at a time.

    Thread Starter capchap

    (@capchap)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    hmmm,
    so wordpress (WP) doesn’t work like DreamWeaver?

    I was hoping to be able to take over an existing website by installing WP on my MAC, making the changes, then uploading to web server.

    This sounds more like joomla or drupal where the site is managed using database tools built into WP….which means the website is really in a DB on the host server and not discrete pages.

    I have a real estate website running open-realty (which is a CMS) and there isn’t really a way to sync the two databases. So all my changes are ‘live’

    Summary: In order to manage the website using WP, I have to login to the host server and use that instance of WP.

    Is that pretty much correct?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    so wordpress (WP) doesn’t work like DreamWeaver?

    No. Dreamweaver is web design software whilst WordPress is a content Management System (CMS).

    This sounds more like joomla or drupal where the site is managed using database tools built into WP

    Correct. Both Joomla & Drupal are also CMS.

    which means the website is really in a DB on the host server and not discrete pages

    Bingo! You’ve already got – in a nutshell – what a lot of people struggle to understand. 🙂

    Is that pretty much correct?

    Yes. Although there are ways to import content from other CMS, any semi-automated system of importing from a static custom site is going to haver to hand-rolled.

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