littleemperor

Thanks! I’ll do that right now.

I figured it out. WordPress was creating a file named index.php. I have a new host and they automatically created an index.html file. For whatever reason, the WordPress “view page” features always defaulted to the html page instead of the php page I had created. Removed the index.html and everything worked fine.

Thanks for everyone’s help especailly kmessinger!

Thanks Root. I am going to take your advice and start over with a new install. Obviously something is not quite right.

Thanks for your help kmessinger. Perhaps there was a problem with the install.

moshu, I have tried creating several pages, some by hitting save first, some by only hitting publish. I get the same results either way. Any suggestions? Thanks.

kmessenger – thanks for your help!

“From within wp-admin/index.php when you click on write, what is the url shown in the browser?”

https://mysite.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

“When you click on publish, what does the url change to?”

https://mysite.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?posted=8

“When you click on view site, what is the url?”

https://mysite.com/

When I click on view post the URL is…

https://mysite.com/?p=8

None of the views reflect my editing but the editing is retained since I can bring the editor back up and see it. Also, I didn’t see anything reflecting a “draft.”

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks. I installed WordPress in the top level home directory. That is also what it shows in Options. When I look at the file dates in ALL the directories, there is nothing new, so I don’t think anything is actually being published. It lets me hit the publish button and continues on like it was published, but the results don’t indicate that it did. It does retain my edits though.

Any other ideas?

hmmm, well I don’t know if you are being sarcastic or just trying to make me feel stupid (not particularly hard to do).

As I said, I don’t have WordPress, know next to nothing about it, and had two different opinions about whether it would help me or not. To use it I would have to change hosting companies so I am just trying ot get some information before I head in the WordPress direction. I looked at the documentation and searched the forums before bothering you.

I don’t have a dashboard to look at, and your advice to just click away doesn’t answer my question.

Again, my second post was about if I can use wordpress to make these updates to a page outside of the wordpress environment. Does the page have to be created in WordPress and published out of WordPress?

Any advice (minus the OMG theatrics) would be really appreciated!

Thank you. How does it work? Do I just create include tags in my html page and they go and grab the WordPress files every time the page is accessed? Or do I have to create the page in WordPress and everything has to be run out of WordPress to do this?