Filezilla FTP & WordPress

  • Hello all,

    I have a wordpress site (www.dannytijerina.com) That I hosted with dream host and setup Filezilla to make changes to the site with. Everything was working fine until my computer crashed and I lost some data and software. Now that my computer is back in action I reinstalled filezilla and downloaded 3.9.2 version of WordPress. Firezilla seems to be connected just fine but when I make changes in my text editor and attempt to push them up to my site they do not take effect even though Filezilla says they have been successfully transferred. I’m wondering if this is because I now have 3.9.2 and the wordpress site I have on dream host is an older version. Any advice on how to get my FTP properly connected to my wordpress site again would be much appreciated, thanks.

    -Danny

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  • Now that my computer is back in action I reinstalled filezilla and downloaded 3.9.2 version of WordPress.

    I see some confusion here, yes you would need to reinstall Filezilla, this is correct. BUT there is no need for you to have WordPress 3.9.2 on your computer, the WordPress you are updating is at Dreamhost.

    The FTP settings and login you need are the ones for FTP at Dreamhost, you can get them from your Dreamhost hosting management login, or from Dreamhost support.

    Thread Starter DannyPlan

    (@dannyplan)

    Ross,

    Thanks for the reply. I had a an old version of my WordPress site in a local folder before and thats where I would make all of the changes to the CSS and what not, then I would send that up to my site on the server through the FTP (filezilla) so I’m just a bit confused as to how I will make changes to my site which is already live at this point if I don’t have a local copy of my WordPress site that I can modify in a text editor and send to the server via the Firezilla.

    You should put the latest version of WordPress on your local install and then ftp – down – the files to local and hen things should be OK.

    Are you actually running WordPress using one of the XAMMP type tools that runs a localhost version of WordPress or are you just keeping local copies of the files.

    If can be really useful to use a tool like XAMMP to run your site locally and test CSS changes like you use there before sending them up live.

    Your theme files should be in wp-content/themes/<theme name>/style.css at least where <theme-name> is your running theme.

    I hope this is what you were asking about?

    Shout if not.

    Thread Starter DannyPlan

    (@dannyplan)

    kdaly,

    I have the the latest version of wordpress on my local drive. The problem I have is that when I make changes locally then try to send them up with the FTP the changes are not reflected on the live site. I’m starting to think that maybe the FTP just is not set up right. It says that it is connected and that the files have been transferred successfully but its not making the change on the server.

    What particular changes are you making style sheet .php files.

    Make sure that you are transferring them to the right directory as this might be the reason. Are you familiar with the layout on the server as it can differ from hosting to hosting.

    Hope that helps… Let me know if it doesn’t

    Kieran

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