I'm completely new to Wordpress and I trying to edit an existing website. Only thing is I can't find where the code is.
All the website's pages, listed in the Pages directory are empty (No blocks, just the title), so I figured the website was coded somewhere else.
Yet I cannot figure out where.
I could not find anything out there as I don't exactly know what I'm looking for.
The content of Pages/Posts of a Wordpress website is stored in the databases in the posts & postmeta tables.
The core code of the Wordpress is stored on the folders:
/wp-admin: contains the code the administration panel
/wp-includes:contains the code for the core of wordpress
/wp-content: contains the code of plugins and the theme you have enabled.
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I have had this site since 2014 and have been updating regularly. All of a sudden, there is no link on the dashboard to access existing pages. They are there (viewable), but there appears to be no way to edit existing pages or to add new pages. Where did the expected link go, and how do I get it back?
I would suggest re-uploading all the Wordpress core files. I suspect some file is missing or corrupt.
Make sure that all of your file permissions are correct (FTP/SSH).
It is a good idea to disable plugins one by one and switch to a default theme as well and see if the Pages menu item appears in your Wordpress administration. You can find the culprit this way.
PS. Backup the site prior to re-uploading the files.
I am helping out creating a few wordpress templates. I've been sent over the basic content (wp-admin/wp-content/wp-includes folders and other wp-* files).
They've already created a new theme, and one front-page.php file. This file includes "parts" such as get_header and get_footer.
Essentially now they'd like me to create new templates using this theme, and php variables to make updating easier. My question is - how can I view this so I can see what i'm making?
I downloaded MAMP and set up a local server, and if I create a sample .php file in the htdocs folder, that page appears correctly. However when I paste the Wordpress folder that I was sent, nothing loads. Is there a special way to get a front-page.php including partials to load within a theme? Am I missing something obvious here?
You will have to Install WordPress completely in order to make it work. Then you will be able to add your folder in the "Themes" folder of WordPress..
You can Google "How to Install WordPress on Mamp" for more info... you will find plenty of websites helping you.
I also suggest you read a few blog post on how to create WordPress Themes... :)
Good luck
My wordpress blog was working perfectly fine, until one day when suddenly my blog got down. All I could see was a blank white page. I still don't know the reason.
But initially, I was able to figure out the Debug messages, which were some compatibility issues between prototype of function Walker() and some theme function extending Walker(). So, I somehow managed to resolve those issues, by changing the theme function prototype.
But still, I could only view a blank page without any error. Then, I went through my child theme files and I found that there was some PHP code written to upload image file in child "style.css". Fortunately, I had backup of my Blog so I restored my child style.css.
After so many efforts, I still couldn't restore my complete Blog.
Although, All the posts and everything is there in DB, but I can't see any post on my Blog and Admin panel. It seems that my created categories are no longer there in Admin panel, when I restored theme.
Can anyone please help me to find out...
Why it happened and How my blog got reset ?
How can I restore my blog and reflect all my posts from DB to Admin-panel & Blog ?
It looks like somebody hacked you up. And, edited some files on your server.
Wordpress, actually doesn't offer any backup features. But, most of the web hosting services have a usual backup option. So, you might consider that.
Or, if your Wordpress database is right in place, as before, then you the possible error is that your Wordpress core files are corrupted or edited by anyone. So, you might consider, deleting your Wordpress and reinstalling it, (without deleting your databases). This would not affect your blog at all, because all Wordpress information is stored in the databases. But, remember to backup the files of wp-content folder and copy them to your new installation.
Sorry if this question is too basic (It would be great if someone could recommend me on a good resource/tutorial for starting up with wordpress development)
I am new to wordpress development. And I work on a Mac.
I downloaded MAMP, installed wordpress, and installed a custom theme which I bought online.
So far, I've been using the wordpress wp-admin interface to customize the theme.
I created a new Page called "myPage". I'm interested in making some design changes to myPage but the wp-admin tool is limited and I realized I have to start looking/modifying the code.
I'm using Netbeans, and created a new project of my local wordpress folder which contains the wp-admin, wp-content, wp-include folders.
However, I am not sure where in the code to find the page I created "myPage", in order to modify it.
I ran a search on all the code but I don't find any mention of it.
I guess my custom page is saved elsewhere? in the database?
Thanks!
Drill down through wp-content > themes > to your theme's folder. Inside there you will find a file called page.php. That is your default page template. To double check this is the page being used, in your wordpress backend, edit the page and on the right hand side in the 'page attributes' panel, you will see a dropdown under 'Template'. You're purchased theme may have many templates, so that is how you can tell which one is being used.
Note: Creating a page inside of the wordpress backend does not actually create a new page file for that page.
Hope this helps.
Yea, you can find your page in DB, check out link for more info.
To access your database, you need to go to url http://localhost/phpMyAdmin/ if everything is set right; or your local IP/phpMyAdmin/ if host alias is not set.
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If you are looking for file, you should look in wpfolder/wp-content/themes/some-theme/ and now ether page.php or content-page.php I am not sure.
I have a directory /examples/ that is at the root of my site. I want to retain this hierarchy:
/examples/foo1/
/examples/foo2/ ...etc
I also have wordpress installed at the root with my posts shown on the home page. I found out the long way that I cant access any wordpress functions or anything wordpress related from within the /examples/ directory or any folders within examples directory.
I know I can make a page within wordpress called examples and make sub pages under examples to get the desired directory, but I dont want to end up with 300 subpages of example content. Thats like treating the page section as a post section.
Is there a way I can access wordpress variables and functions from the /examples/ directory that I made? Or is there another method that I have not thought of to get this directory and still have access to wordpress stuff?
I hope this is clear.. thanks!
This is similar to a question previously answered. Refer to the instructions for displaying WP content in the same domain:
Displaying articles from a wordpress site on a non-wordpress site