Dreamweaver CS3 URL issue

  • Hey,

    I just created my website last month, and I finally began updating it. Here’s the issue: I connected Dreamweaver CS3 to my domain to act as an FTP for uploading. The issue is that I want my website .com to be the landing page, but the .com page is the wordpress site. So I either need to figure out how to make my landing page have the .com url (as opposed to the .com/index url), OR, I need be able to edit my wordpress .com with the content from my landing page.

    tldr;

    My website: todiscern.com
    My landing page: todiscern.com/index

    I need the landing page to occur when someone types in todiscern.com, so however that happens, that would be awesome. Also, I was an idiot and used a theme, and now I can’t disable it. Am I stupid? Probably. Help?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Are you saying you don’t want your WordPress installation any more?

    Thread Starter spockisbest

    (@spockisbest)

    No, no, the problem is that I don’t know how to use wordpress, and I know how to use dreamweaver. So I’m using dreamweaver temporarily–I’d love to figure out how to put my dreamweaver content directly onto my wordpress, but I don’t know how to do that. I want wordpress specifically because of the webcomic plugin and because I want a blog page. I just don’t know how to customize the pages.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Maybe try a plugin to redirect your home page: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/

    You might consider installing WordPress into a subdirectory, such as example.com/blog, in which case you can keep your static HTML files from Dreamweaver where they are while you figure out how use WordPress.

    You might be able to save an index.html file in your main directory, in which case it’s possible your web server will produce that page, instead of index.php, when you go to https://example.com. This depends on how your web server is configured.

    You won’t be able to directly put content from Dreamweaver “into” WordPress – for this, you’ll have to learn how to add pages and posts into WP. But you CAN use Dreamweaver to edit the style.css file in the WordPress theme you’re using.

    In the “How-to and Troubleshooting” forum, you’ll be able to get more help around using your theme and how to work with your WordPress homepage.

    If you have your landing page as index.html/index.htm (you could just change that in your hosting panel to allow first to render html pages and than php pages)
    this way wordpress index.php wont render – and only ur landing page will work, (but still if u need to run your WP u can put that into a sub folder)

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