Publishing to root; where are files in wordpress

  • I am converting an existing running site to wordpress. I’ve got it all done, it looks great in wp. I can’t seem to find the wp page files that I have created, how do I find them, so I can copy them onto the root html directory.

    It must be obvious, but I am missing it.

    Thanks

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  • They are saved in your database without the HTML formatting and styles (which is handled by your theme) and just dynamically loaded when data is requested.

    Need to know where exactly you installed wordpress as if you want your website in root you will move what you have in root now in a folder and move wordpress in root

    Thread Starter NapaDave

    (@napadave)

    WordPress is installed at go daddy like this:

    html
    cgi
    dev (my development folder)
    images
    old code
    wordpress

    Currently I do development in https://www.domainname.com/dev, and then when ready to go, I copy files from dev to html folder and I am live. How do I do the same with wp?

    thanks

    I copy files from dev to html folder and I am live.

    That’s the stone age way. WP stores all content in the database. See Moving WordPress ? WordPress Codex

    Thread Starter NapaDave

    (@napadave)

    The dev folder was only used for the non wp development. Ishould copy the entire wordpress folder including the three subfolders?

    If you want use wordpress from root then yes you can move contents of wordpress in html folder where as you want to use it from folder then you can have
    https://domainname.com/wordpress

    Thread Starter NapaDave

    (@napadave)

    I have this already

    https://domainname.com/wordpress

    It’s not that I want to use worpress from root, I just want to do what the normal proceess would be – develop, create, test and then publish.

    Thanks

    You can test wordpress from the folder untill you ready to move it over to root same way you have dev folder but wordpress needs to be in folder of it own so you do not have conflict.

    You could create folder in dev folder for wordpress so you will have

    https://domianname.com/dev/wordpress

    Thread Starter NapaDave

    (@napadave)

    OK, so the normal way would be to have two instances of wordpress installed:

    https://www.domainname.com/wordpress (which I have today)-(but it is not yet delivering the web info, since I don’t know how to do that)

    and

    https://www.domainname.com/dev/wordpress

    and to create that, I just copy the entire current wordpress folder to this new folder. Then how do I know which instance of wordpress to get onto when I log in for development?

    And I still don’t know how to get the dev work I have done to be the live site.

    Sorry to be a pain, everything else has gone great!

    D

    As I said if you want keep as is that 1s fine just work and set it all up learn how to use wordpress.
    To access your admin panel as is now you will have
    https://domianname.com/wordpress/wp-admin
    will ask for user name and password
    to get to your website you will have
    https://domianname.com/wordpress

    As you are new to wordpress I have 23 videos on my website that are free to watch for registered members that will walk you through each step from install to working with admin panel.

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