connecting html & css files to live website

  • Hello,

    I started creating my WP theme / website on a local server by using Flywheel. I am in a good shape now with it and wanted to transfer it to my live host/server. I did that using the WPvivid Backup Plugin and everything worked great. However, for now I have been making any content updates by going into my html and css files. How can I connect those now to my live website? As of now they are still linked to the local version of my site but not to the one I transferred with my update. Hope the question makes sense.

    I appreciate any support and help with this ??

    Best,
    Jana

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    What do you mean by “html files”? If you edit your theme’s style.css file locally, just copy that file up to the live site via FTP.

    As for content updates, you should be making those on the live site.

    Alternatively, you can continue to develop locally and use the same method you used to publish the website to update it.

    Thread Starter jana90

    (@jana90)

    Hi Steve,

    I basically created that Theme myself with the html and css and js files on my local computer. So the site is not dynamic yet, whenever I make style or content changes, I just go into my html or css files. But these are not ‘linked’ to the live site. When I change anything in these files the changes are only reflected on the local site, not the live site.

    So, I don’t know how to change that, so that I can continue to make changes to my local css and html files and that the changes would be reflected then on the live site.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    >> Alternatively, you can continue to develop locally and use the same method you used to publish the website to update it.<<

    Thread Starter jana90

    (@jana90)

    Hi Steve, yes I read that. But if there is a way to link my local html & css files to my live website, I would prefer doing that since it’s a bit inconvenient to migrate the site every time I do a small change

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    No, probably not. Once your theme is done, there should be no need to manage the CSS or PHP theme files just to add/edit content; you should be doing that on the live site.

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