How do I edit a post outside of wordpress?

  • I have a blog https://www.symbolicstrategies.com. I currently have 6 posts.
    When I edit these post in wordpress I have to add a lot of extra little code to get proper paragraph breaks ect. Also I travel a lot I want to be able to edit my wordpress site even when I do not have internet connection.

    So what im trying to do is this;
    I want to find the file that contains a post on my server, download it to my desktop, open it in dreamweaver, edit it, save it, and replace the file on my server with the new file I have edited. Thank you for the assist. – J

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  • sorry but all post/page info is stored in the mysql database – nothing is stored in files.

    why do you have to add extra code?

    Thread Starter jeremymccann

    (@jeremymccann)

    My alignment is jacked.

    When I add a bullet; When the text wraps it does not align correctly.
    Example;

    ? Navigation activity Many Web Traffic Analysis services will show which navigation is accessed most, such as clicks on the links for
    Accommodations, Check Rates, Meetings, etc…

    SHOULD BE;

    ? Navigation activity Many Web Traffic Analysis services will show
    which navigation is accessed most, such as clicks on the links for
    Accommodations, Check Rates, Meetings, etc

    I have to add space ” “ in html for every bullet to achieve proper alignment.

    And I never know where the text will wrap to insert ” “ So I have to write the post, then go back note where all the text wraps were then make the appropriate edits.

    Also I have to add “<br /*> <br /*>” to achieve a double break between category paragraphs… All this I would have to do in Dreamweaver as well. but uploading changes is SLOWWWW!

    Thread Starter jeremymccann

    (@jeremymccann)

    sorry that “_” is ampersand nbsp semicolon.

    Thread Starter jeremymccann

    (@jeremymccann)

    SHOULD BE;

    ? Navigation activity Many Web Traffic Analysis services will show
      which navigation is accessed most, such as clicks on the links for   Accommodations, Check Rates, Meetings, etc

    Thread Starter jeremymccann

    (@jeremymccann)

    Well you can see my issue with bullet alignment above.

    Ok Jeremy, I’ll respond to the other post here.

    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.

    Are you saying you want to be able to manually write posts and then upload them when you have an internet connection again? That’s not possible. Everything is stored in the database and although you can download the database you can’t type posts directly into it. I’d suggest you just write your posts in notepad and save them and then copy and paste them over when you can ??

    Alignment and spacing is primarily due to your theme’s css in the style.css file, and this is where you should fix the problem.

    Answer to your first question in your first post. Switch to the “visual” view when posting.

    Other than that, the last poster had the correct answer and the solution is way over my head.

    “Are you saying you want to be able to manually write posts and then upload them when you have an internet connection again? That’s not possible. Everything is stored in the database and although you can download the database you can’t type posts directly into it. I’d suggest you just write your posts in notepad and save them and then copy and paste them over when you can :)”

    I, too, want to write posts offline – in my case I want to edit several and, with satellite connection, that takes a long time. I had looked through my WordPress backup file on a text editor and found all the posts I want to edit. Is there any reason why I shouldn’t copy the current .sql database file into a text editor, make the changes and copy it back again?
    It would then follow that I could, possibly, write posts into it.

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