WordPress CSS Guides

Uploading Files

How your server is setup differs from host to host. The screenshots you see here show my two hosts:

Your screen could have 'htdocs' or 'public_html' where I have 'mainwebsite_html'.
To install WordPress you can ignore all the other folders, and just click the one that is 'htdocs' / 'public_html' / 'mainwebsite_html' / 'www' / 'web' or something very similar.

You should now see listing of files and folders. Just how many there are depends on how much you have on your website.

The point of this exercise though is to upload WordPress.
Right click in the server window:

Click 'Create Directory', enter the name you want, and click Okay.
NOTE: the name you choose will be where your WordPress weblog will appear, and although it can be changed later, it's much better to avoid that by choosing what you want now.
In this example, I have created the directory 'blog'.

Now the directory 'blog' has been made, click on it to open it.

Nothing there yet ... but note the folder with the dots following it - clicking that takes you back up a folder level.

I'm going to assume that you have downloaded WordPress, and have unzipped it.
(The sizes of the windows in FileZilla can be changed by dragging them - I'm doing that here for clarity when showing files.)
In area 2, find your way to where you have left WordPress.

When you have found it and clicked the 'wordpress' folder, the window underneath that will show the contents of said folder:

Hold the SHIFT key and press the DOWN arrow to highlight all the files and folders in that window.
Now RIGHT-click, and choose 'Upload' from the menu.

Now watch ...... everything should be uploaded straight to your website.

Once that has happened, then whatever is in the server window should be on your computer window.
Click on folders - such as 'wp-admin' - in both windows and check that each window has the same list of files and folders.

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FileZilla

Uploading Files