Where is HTML Saved for Content Pages

Pages, posts, and pretty much all other content, is a combination of things from two places.

First, there’s the content, and that’s stored in the database. Second, there’s the template files that are “wrapped” around the content to display them.

Judging by what you’ve said there, it looks like there’s an issue with one of your themes template files. Has anyone been making changes to any files lately? Also, is this a theme from the repository on this site, or did you get it from somewhere ehse?

Thank you for responding, catacaustic

I’m taking over a website that (to my knowledge) hasn’t been touched for over a year – and I’m not too familiar with WP (more of an HMTL/DreamWeaver programmer). I believe the problem I’m addressing has been there for a long time – probably from day 1.

As near as I can tell, it’s the Twenty Eleven/Child theme from the WP repository.

The public_html ‘database’ seems overly complicated – but I guess it has to be to get the most from CMS.

You’re (a little bit at least) in luck. WordPress does have a learning curve, but it’s far smaller than something like Drupal.

Oh, and when I said database, I meant a real MySQL database, not a collection of files somewhere on the site. CMS’s don’t work with flat files like that, so it will require a bit of differnt thinking to get your head around the difference.

The basics that you’d need to know for a start is that the themes files are stored in the /wp-content/themes/ folder. There will most likely be a few themes in there, so you’ll need to know which one is currently active, and you can do your edits there. As your site is already using a child theme (that’s very good work for a start) you can edit the files in that child theme. For a good read, and an introduction to how it all works, I’d suggest have a look at this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Hierarchy

Thank you