Editing a WordPress site with PHP ?

Question

Site was being hosted by a big shot media agency and it was also designed by them. Its a WordPress site. Our company now want to host the site on our own and do the edits as well because the cost was getting too much to have the media agency handle everything.

We got all the files from the agency, however, they are all PHP files. When i open them in Dreamweaver I get message saying something about "Dynamically Related files cant be found" so I set up a testing server but even after connecting to the server, i don't know how to edit the PHP files. If its a WordPress site why do we have PHP files?

When I log in to WordPress and click on Appearance ..there is no Edit option. So, I'm clueless as to how to edit my site now. I thought this was going to be like HTML where I can see what I'm editing, but after opening PHP files...i see nothing but numbers and such. Any help is appreciated :(

Also. how do I move the website to my host account at GoDaddy? Do I just log in to my Domain and redirect it to my hosting account at GoDaddy?

Answer 1

If you want to edit or play with WordPress site on your local machine, you can set up a local WP site with this tool: http://www.betterhostreview.com/install-wordpress-locally-windows-pc-1-minute.html



To change the design of a Wordpress site, you can log on its Dashboard, go to Appearance, then Themes to change themes. Most WP themes will comes with some options or settings you can choose or customize. To change the code of theme files, go to Editors.



To migrate a WP site, you can check out this link which has covered almost all aspects about sites transfer, such as site files transfer, database transfer, domain redirection and so on, http://www.betterhostreview.com/move-wordpress-website-to-bluehost.html

It is about migration to Bluehost, since both GoDaddy and Bluehost offer cPanel hosting, so they should be quite similar.

Answer 2

I'm sorry to say this but you should not be in charge of this, given your level of expertise here.

1. WordPress is written in PHP

2. DreamWeaver is good for static websites and that's it; it is not used by professionals

3. PHP files are edited with a programmer's text editor, like Notepad++

4. Not sure why you "got all the files" from them when they are on your web server anyway

5. Editing a wordpress theme is nothing like editing HTML in Dreamweaver



Regular content should be editable by editing the pages.

To edit styling, the header, footer, etc., go to wp-content/themes/name_of_theme/

Here you will find style.css, footer.php etc.

Answer 3

You obviously have no clue what you're doing. Before you do anything that will completely break WordPress, contact a web developer in your local area and pay him to migrate and re-setup your website. GoDaddy is more than capable of hosting your website, but since you don't know how to move it, you'll never get it up and running. Honestly--you're in over your head. Contact a local web developer and pay him a few hundred dollars to get your website running again.