How do I edit a file outside of WordPress

  • Resolved dakranii

    (@dakranii)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I want to bring my main page down locally through ftp, make a change, then reload it. But I don’t know where to find the file.

    It has to be easy, what am I doing to overlook it? I’m used to grabbing the index.html file out of the root directory and doing what I need to then putting it back. But I don’t understand how wordpress works. Where is it storing the main page content??

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  • @asechrest; Good question,

    I shoot film and video all over the world, so If I know I will be flying to… Lets say Africa to shoot a documentary on Sat. Where I know I will not have internet connection. Friday evening I want to be able to download a backup of my WP blog to my laptop and make all my edits while I am away then upload when I return.

    Well, I think your best bet would be to draft your post in a basic text editor in HTML, then copy/paste to the write post screen in HTML mode once you return. You know where your photos will be stored and you know (or can learn) the HTML needed to style the post, so you can prepare most of it ahead of time.

    Thread Starter dakranii

    (@dakranii)

    I’m revisiting this topic I created after months of using and understanding WordPress now. What I was asking for in the original post, and what others are asking for, is not what WordPress is about.

    I was used to working on webpages written in html and editing them in Dreamweaver, as jeremymccann is saying. That’s not what WordPress is.

    If that’s how you want to create sites, you shouldn’t be using WordPress, I don’t believe. Asechrest described WordPress well.

    It’s not page A, page B, page C, etc. It’s a header, a footer, a sidebar or two, and a single php page that calls it all together. You have to use the WordPress admin page to do the work on your site…create pages, create posts, edit your header, sidebar(s), and footer.

    If you want to work offline, just write what you want in Wordpad or Notepad, then when you’re online and you want to “upload” a post to your blog, click the “New Post” button from the admin section of your site, paste in your Wordpad or Notepad typed text, format as necessary and hit “Publish”.

    If you use the HTML editor, then you can create the html in Dreamweaver if you want (keep in mind that while working in Dreamweaver you shouldn’t and don’t need to see the header, footer, or sidebar of your site, only the post or page you are working on), then past the code into the HTML editor after starting a “New Post”.

    And know the difference between a PAGE and a POST in WordPress. A PAGE is a static page you create to store static information…about me, contact, etc. You create these by choosing “New Page” from the admin section of your site. A POST is a post that goes into your blog. By default your WordPress site should display posts on your main page, newest on top, 10 per page.

    I asked the original question when I didn’t get what WordPress was or how it worked. Now I know and my question doesn’t have an answer I see.

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