Just a blank page….

the classic and default themes are themes bundled with wordpress….you need them. reinstall them. Even when you have custom themes in place, you need to keep the default so that if something goes wrong with a custom theme, wordpress can revert to the default.

The ‘Hello World’ you speak of is the default post that wordpress comes with. You delete that from the edit posts area in your admin area once you sign on

Ok I’ll get them back in place.

What I don’t understand is why my site (on my local machine) works great but when I uploaded the content to the ‘Themes’ directory I’m not seeing anything.

I’ve searched hi and low for instructions on uploading your page once it’s completed and can’t find any.

I’m a newbie with the whole wordpress/php site building software so any help is greatly appreciated.

are you just trying to make pages in an editor or something and have wordpress recognize them?

Typically for wordpress, you install the software, and then use it to creat posts/pages from the admin area.

If you want a new look for wordpress, you then find or create a theme to got it to look/act how you want

if you want certain pages to look different from other pages, then you are stepping into page template area…

All of these things are covered in the documentation on this site….I’m just trying to give you a very simplified idea of how things work in the wordpress world….

No… I’m using Word Press installed locally on my machine to produce my website. This way I can look for and correct any mistakes prior to making it public. I guess I should have clarified that. But thank you for your insights. So let me explain in detail.

I installed WP on my machine locally. Downloaded several different themes to test them out and see how they would look. Selected the one I wanted and built my site. (All locally)

I installed the script at omnis.com, accepting all the defaults during the process. (It performed the install of wordpress in a /wp/ sub-directory)
It took me a while to figure out that it was not suppose to be installed there.(in the WP directory) So… I went back and uninstalled and reinstalled it (again accepting all the defaults) and this time it placed everything in the correct folder.

Then I uploaded my theme that is under the local wp-content folder to the ‘themes’ directory at my host.
Renamed the index.php to index.php_default.
This is where I am stuck. I don’t see MY page. All I see is the ‘Hello World’ blog page. Not the site I’ve built.

I’ve been looking over much of the forums and have started looking thru the documentation. Typically I can pick this kind of stuff right up but I’m struggling a bit here with this.

well…we might be getting in over my head here…

but, the simple stuff first

do you have your mysql stuff from your local setup moved to your host?

I’m not really following the index.php stuff you are talking about?

You have the theme index.php renamed? Or the root index.php?

RVoodoo… I really have to apologize. I read thru the documentation and I must have really missed it / dropped the ball. Concerning the index.php… disregard that. I think I was sent down the wrong path by someone else.

I did not understand that I needed to “create” a mysql data base at my host. I thought I had followed the instructions closely but totally screwed that up.

I have since went to my hosting service, starting from scratch, and created a database, then a fresh install of WordPress as well. Logged in and finished the install so now I have the dashboard and all the tools at my host. DONE.

You have the theme index.php renamed? Or the root index.php?

As for the theme index: I have not renamed it or the root index.php. Again… I think I either misunderstood or was lead down the wrong path.

do you have your mysql stuff from your local setup moved to your host?

No. I’ve created a database but I have not uploaded anything to it. I don’t know how as of yet but am tying to figure it out.

So that’s where I’m at right now. The database is there and the installed default wordpress site is up. Now I just need to get my stuff up there.
The site is https://www.propheticflow.org

I’ll be out for a bit and will check back later. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

The issue to the blank page was that I did not have the WordPress application finalized on the hosting server. The package was there but I had not run the ‘install’ …..