From what I can understand initially here, you are looking for the wp-admin area of your site, where you can log in and create pages and posts etc. Is this correct?
If it is and by “takes me to the home page of my website” you mean you see your blank WordPress website’s homepage, then you _should_ be able to visit dashboard area by appending /wp-admin
to your homepage URL or by removing the index.php
and replacing the URL with wp-login.php
.
_Note this is without knowing your local MAMP file paths and/or hostname setups_
Lastly, if this doesn’t help can you please share more information on where your sites are stored in MAMP (e.g. file paths) and any screenshots of your homepage and URLs you’re attempting to visit would be great.
]]>Yes, adding /wp-admin to the homepage URL did the trick. Thanks.
WordPress files are in Applications > MAMP > htdocs > wordpresstest.
I am guessing that the website is in wordpresstest > wp-content > themes> twentysixteen (twentysixteen being the theme that I installed).
I am very new to all this and really appreciate the help.
Sincerely,
Herb
]]>So yes I does sound like the actual site files would be located here:
Applications > MAMP > htdocs > wordpresstest
(this will be your site root where the WordPress core files live)
If you dig deeper into the wp-content folder there you will have access to whats typically the files related to your site, with the themes and plugins etc.
One thing I think you may benefit from (if you’re new to local development or WordPress it’s self?) is to maybe use a more friendly local development environment. I personally use Local by Flywheel as it is much simpler to get a local site setup and running than the likes of MAMP.
Let me know if you need anything further buddy.
All the best,
Chris ??
Thanks for the additional info and suggestions.
Regards,
Herb
thanks you
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