Upload to Wordpress site that's hosted by GoDaddy

Firstly I’m one of those people on here who has very limited knowledge in web dev, FTP and all things techie so I would really appreciate any direction you can provide.

I have purchased a theme from Theme forest and want to upload it to my wordpress site. The site is hosted by GoDaddy. I have downloaded Filezilla and used it before but don’t understand how I would know the host, username, password etc. for Filezilla.

Do I have to upload the files to the web host and then I can access them on my WP dashboard?

Step by step instructions would be fantastic. Thank you!

Hi there, you are in luck i just called these dudes up today to find out that myself. They are very helpful if you call them. They gave me this link to follow the steps. Seems fairly straight forward. I haven’t started in on it yet.

Good Luck C

Hi guys, To be honest I used that support thread too and it did not always work. It is much easier if you can identify your database details (found in the admin section of your GoDaddy account), then upload the main wordpress folder via your ftp and then just add the theme thast you purchase from here. All the themes on here are well documented as to how to do that. Any issues let me know.

Sorry just read your first comment properly – I will put up step by step instructions here later. Thanks

Hi charlie4282 You are correct the step by step from GoDaddy FAILED —so your steps would be much appreciated since this is my first time transferring and working with wordpress as well.

thanks C

Hi CCulos49,

Ok so GoDaddy have changed there admin so I need to check the database bit again to write the exact instructions but to get you started on FTP with Filezilla as this will be your first step:

- Sign into your account on GoDaddy - Click “MY ACCOUNT ” top right and select “WEB HOSTING ” From the list in the middle of the page - You will see a box with your url and an expiry date – click “LAUNCH” to the right of this box - You will be sent to “HOSTING DASHBOARD ”

VERY IMPORTANT AT THE TOP THERE ARE 3 BUTTONS NAMED FTP /DOMAINS/EMAIL — DO NOT CLICK ON THESE AS IT TAKES YOU TO AN AREA WHICH YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND TO MAKE CHANGES

- There will be an open panel below these buttons with the headings “FTP”/”SERVER”/”ACCOUNT” – the info in the ftp section is what you need to use filezilla… I suggest you keep this screen open whilst using Filezilla to copy the info.

FOR FILEZILLA : “Host”: ftp.yoururl.com” “Username”: This is the “Admin user name” in the ftp section “Password”: Will be as it is in the ftp on the hosting dashboard. This may be in a confirmation email from GoDaddy or you can change it but it may take an hour to reset officially. “Port”: You can leave this blank but if for any reason it will not connect then use “211”

Assuming this connects: Download Wordpress from the website “http://wordpress.org/download/”

Open the zip and the “Wordpress” folder so you see a selection of PHP files, a “read me” html file and a few folders named “Wp-Includes”, “Wp-Admin”, “Wp-Content”...

Select ALL of these files and drag them into your Filezilla Root – i.e drag all the files into the lower right hand section of file zilla (the one with headings “Filename”, “File Size”, “File Type”, “Last Modified” etc etc

This may take a little while then press “refresh” (Green and blue arrow button above “Username”)

Now when you go to your url you will hopefully meet the WP set up screen. For this you will need the database info. I will get the route to this asap and leave instructions here again.

Hopefully this will help – sorry its a long reply but it can be a lot to explain and I do not want to sound insulting with basic instructions but I appreciate it can be daunting the first time!

Good luck

Ok i have sussed the database route as the other instructions were very long I will wait until you guys reply here before sending instructions on setting up a database too.

Hopefully getting Wordpress to the configure stage on your URL will work with the instructions above and then I will send (shorter) ones for the next step.

Thanks

Hi there charlie4282,
So I got to the point where I have loaded Wordpress and all is good and I copied over the wp-content folder via FTP and all is good.
I signed into my dashboard all is good, everything is there all the images, pages, categories, posts etc. but when I go to view the site nadda.
I activated my theme and still site is not correct?

let me know what you think C

Hi, Ok first that’s great that you got Wordpress and the theme working there.

Just so I am clear did you have a site already that you are trying to move or is this a fresh start on a new theme? Your last message sounds like you are moving an existing content/site into a new theme?

In honesty if that’s the case – the best thing you can do is ask the author of the new theme how to do it. I know the author of this theme is a big player on Themeforest so he should be able to tell you what to do

Because each theme is coded differently & sometimes custom coded in parts, the way in which to transfer content would depend on how the new one is set up.

If you are trying to get the theme to look how it does in the demo then there should be an XML file you need to upload – that should be mentioned in the documentation.

But if you could let me know: - Are you trying to transfer existing content to a new theme or start a fresh? - Are you trying to get the new site to look like the demo here? - Is the first link (DEV) complete and what you are trying to get to?

Then i can try and offer some more useful advice, just so i am clear what you are trying to achieve. As you do not have a lot of content on the first link so it may be that it is easier to start from fresh on the GoDaddy platform/database etc. I have a client who is quite inexperienced and actually set themes up on multiple domains/subdomain and tests the design on one so he knows what he is doing to make it look right then just does the correct changes on his main site!

Thanks

Wow, just saw the thread on this theme from you too re: customization.

1) remove “posted” “comments off” – It does depend on the theme but it might be worth looking below the main page area for a control on it OR turn from VISUAL to HTML on the main page area of the editor (top right of the editor box) and ctrl F the words – then remove them.

2) the images – it looks like a 3 column layout so again search the section in the html side of the page editor and remove them. if you’d rather link them then click on the image in the Visual mode of the editor and look in the tool bar of the editor e.g. text stuff etc and find the “link” button (looks like a paperclip) and add the page url you want to link it to. That’s it.

Hope it helps – anything else please use charlie4282@hotmail.com so we do not clog this thread up!

Am sure the author will come back to you soon Thanks