directory structure of WordPress

You can view it and browse it here, where it appears in the same layout as you would find it on your own web site.source: branches/3.4

Or, you could download WordPress to your desktop, extract it, and familiarize yourself with it at your own pace that way.

For example I learned that my image files for my pages are in
/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/06

/wp-content/uploads/ is the default path for any media that you upload. The /uploads directory is created the first time you upload media.

You can adjust the default path ( no real need to ) in Settings > Media and you can also choose the /uploads directory structure (to a limited degree) at the bottom of that page at the tick-box that says “Organize my uploads into month – and year – based folders.” Your post and page content is actually stored in your database.

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How do I load wordpress on my computer? I followed the readme file

Open wp-admin/install.php in your browser

Instead of installing I got this

https://content.screencast.com/users/dchristensen777/folders/Default/media/3b933b7e-5276-492b-99e8-75b57168bee6/wordpress%20install.png

If you download the WP files, you can look at the files, but you won’t be able to run wordPress on your computer unless you have Apache, MySQl and PHP install. You need a server and a database to run wordPress. Here’s how to run WP locally on your machine.

For all intent and purposes, the stuff you need to concern yourself with is the files and folder in the wp-content directory. Everything else is part of WordPress core and should NEVER be touched.