Getting a wordpress site functioning

  • I’ve been tearing hair out in chunks over a wordpress site created by someone who claimed to know what she was doing but who isn’t available right now to toubleshoot problems with it.

    Note particularly that I have built a lot of pure html websites but I haven’t a clue in the world about wordpress and / or PHP, and I can’t find any information created for people who don’t know where to start.

    Is there any entry level information with pedantic details of every step ? and where perchance can I find same ?

    As far as I can tell, all the necessary files are present in public_html, but attempts to login to domainname/wp_admin timeout. I gather that I do need to login this way to check the setup. Where should I look for information ? Since I can’t login to wordpress, I don’t even know what version of wordpress I have.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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    Thread Starter praxidice

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    Thanks for the response but I’d already been there and found it inadequate for my needs. It might be OK for someone with considerable WordPress experience as a refresher, but there is far too much not said for someone with no experience, especially if they have as massive workload and scarce time available. The site is for a non-profit advocacy organization that doesn’t need any bells and whistles … simplicity, reliability and ease of editing are the orders of the day. In previous lives I’ve resorted to writing my own documentation as that was the only way to ensure all the missing bits were included, unfortunately I just don’t have the time to stuff around at present … I need to get this website up yesterday and given that it looks like it would take me a week with WordPress, I’d do better re-coding the thing in html which I could do in a few hours.

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