Where are individual pages located in FTP/file manager to edit them?

  • Resolved jetsmatt85

    (@jetsmatt85)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Running GeneratePress theme, and have a few pages set up to navigate the site. One of them is serving as my cover page (homepage). I want to edit it, so I can add in some metadata. Can you tell me where it’s usually located? Guessing it’s in /wp-content somewhere. Just wondering where it usually can be found, or how I can edit one of my pages quickly to add in metadata.

    Thanks!

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  • Hi there,

    Can you share a link to the page and explain what Meta Data you want to display and where you want it displayed. Then we can let you know.

    I guess that jetsmatt85 is looking for files like pagename.php to edit them directly, but there are not such files in WordPress, except the index.php for the home page. The pages are stored actually in the database.
    To add HTML code to a page you have to edit the page as usual in WordPress, add a block type “code <>” into the page and enter the additional html code you need. (If I have understood well how it works in WordPress, I am newbie).

    Thread Starter jetsmatt85

    (@jetsmatt85)

    Hey David, thanks! It’s stuff for FB/Twitter Cards, so stuff like this, in the <head> section:

    <meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image” />

    The website is https://swipesports.com, and we’d like it on our homepage. The way we have it set up is HP is laid out in “cover page,” so I was guessing the meta data would go there, but i’m not sure. I just can’t figure out where those pages are showing up in my file manager, so I can edit them there. I know usually it’s somewhere in /wp-content/themes/generatepress, but maybe I’m wrong.

    Just wanna put some metadata for Twitter/FB cards in there, and I was guessing to do that I have to add that in the <head> section of “cover page,” but could be wrong.

    Theme Author Tom

    (@edge22)

    Hi there,

    WordPress is a content management system – it uses template files to pull content from your database instead of having individual pages that you can edit via file manager.

    To add things to the <head> section of your site, you need to use PHP along with conditionals to determine when to output them.

    For example, if you wanted to add something to the <head> section of your front page, you would do this:

    add_action( 'wp_head', function() {
    if ( is_front_page() ) :
    ?>
        Meta goes in here.
    <?php
    endif;
} );

    Hope this helps!

    Thread Starter jetsmatt85

    (@jetsmatt85)

    Wow, excellent answer, Tom, thanks for that! I learned something important today for sure, thanks to you. Major help. I’ll go that route now, and also in the future.

    Much appreciated on the support/assistance. Thanks!

    Theme Author Tom

    (@edge22)

    No problem! Glad I could help ??

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