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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes How to Make Child Themes

Posted by Aimee Sanford
Aimee Sanford
991 Points

Can't find local site files, used one-click install.

I used the one click install and have been in the backend playing with my site. I wanted to start learning to make child themes, so I downloaded filezilla and have logged in to see my remote site folders, but can't find my local files - there is no wordpress folder in my downloads.

6 Answers

Zac Gordon
STAFF
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

They are likely in a folder named "public_html"

Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points
Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points

Hi Aimee,

Have you tried putting the folders that are on your remote site onto your local computer. Just drag and drop or double click as if you were putting files from your remote site to your desktop.

In Filezilla, the right hand side is your remote site and the left hand side is your local computer. Go to the directory that you would like to put the files from the remote site and then highlight the files on the remote site side (right) and double click them or drag them over to the left hand side to whichever directory you want to put them in.

Does this help?

Aimee Sanford
Aimee Sanford
991 Points

Thanks, Garrett! That does help. I just didn't know if I messed something up with my initial install and that's why I couldn't locate the Wordpress files, but I will just copy them from the remote site.

Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points
Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points

Glad I could help! If you're doing a one click install from your hosting provider then that install automatically generates the files for WordPress without you having to upload them. That's probably why you didn't see them on your local platform.

Aimee Sanford
Aimee Sanford
991 Points
Aimee Sanford
Aimee Sanford
991 Points

Oh, that explains it! Thanks again.

Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman
662 Points
Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman
662 Points

HI I had the same issue for one click or 5 min installation. however I just did what Garret Sanderson said. copy word press from the server to the local. but how about my SQL part. I didn't install MY SQL. do I just install it as the instructed in the video "The Famous 5-Minute WordPress Install"

Link: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/how-to-make-a-website-with-wordpress/installing-wordpress/the-famous-5minute-wordpress-install

Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points
Garrett Sanderson
Garrett Sanderson
12,735 Points

Tarek Soliman , you will need get the BackUpWordPress plugin in order to get the sql file from the database on your local server.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/

Once you download the sql file you can import it on your database that you create with your hosting provider.

Let me know if this helps.

Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman
662 Points
Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman
662 Points

thank Garret, I figured that MYSQL is already installed, and i dint know until i check my my WEB.php.fig file. but I Learned about backing up word press from your comment. that's great. By the way, is the backing up plugin, would replace the child Theme or what?