Question about WordPress hosting?

Question

So, I'm helping a friend to build an art-themed website where they post art and offer to sell prints. He wants me to help him to make this thing, but he's using WordPress, and I know nothing about WP's content management system, let alone the templates. I guess I COULD look up how to make a template... but our idea is to build a from-scratch HTML template based on one I already did and got working. So... now what? Can I upload a ZIP package to the site and have it publish? To be honest I don't even know how it works the normal way, I just put together a site, emailed my teacher a ZIP, and he did the trick that gets it online.

I found a page that says that WP allows FTP programs. I don't know what that is. What do I need to read about to make this work? What IS a FTP? Can't I just upload the docs to the site dropbox-style?

Answer 1

There are plug in widgets which allow you to add and remove features to a Wordpress theme. Your application probably has more functional requirements than static html could handle, it would certainly need server side coding like PHP a MySql database. Commissioning a custom wordpress plugin to provide special requirements would be cheaper than an entire custom site.



Not clear what your ZIP to site requirements are.



The shopping cart and payment processing page might be the most tricky part of the site, might be wisest to start with an ecommerce site template, there are free starter accounts on some ecommerce specialty hosts.

Answer 2

Wordpress requires mysql database and php support. Unlike static HTML pages, WP stores a lot of data in the database, when you open these php pages or links, they send a request to the database and fetch data from there.

FTP tools help you transfer wordpress pages from computer to web server, however for the database, you need a different tool to import your local database backup to remove database server.

Most WordPress hosting sevices have the web server and database server separated. And there will be a connection string created for the web pages to communicated with the database server. It can be defined in WP config file.



I think you can take a look at these two guides for web hosting beginners:

http://www.betterhostreview.com/what-is-web-hosting.html

http://www.betterhostreview.com/what-is-ftp-client.html

Answer 3

Go to fiverr dot com. Choose category -> programming & tech -> WordPress.



Sort gigs by rating, and find someone who does the job.

Make sure the gig has a lot of good reviews.



That is, if you hadn't consider this option yet :-)



Good luck

Answer 4

Hey try this. http://www.fiverr.com/users/mustafizrana/manage_gigs/wordpressfix-wp-error-edit-themetemplate-or-css. It works for me. Hopefully for you too.

Answer 5

you can use hostgator