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Timothy Armoo
Timothy Armoo

Reputation: 167

How do I know which file to edit in wordpress?

I have a website in WordPress and I've noticed in some points I want to change a piece of text or something similar, but I don't know which file to edit.

How do I locate the file that I want to edit using FTP (for example using FileZilla) in order to change the website detail that I want to?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 446

Answers (2)

Darshana Bhuse
Darshana Bhuse

Reputation: 116

It's a very big topic to discuss.

  • If you want to edit any content of the page you can edit page.php file which is located in your Theme folder e.g. (wp-content/themes/theme-name).
  • If you want to edit any content related to post you can content.php which is again related to your theme folder.
  • If you want to edit sidebar content edit sidebar-content.php file (located in your theme folder).

There are other templates as well. But all the template files are located in your theme folder.

Upvotes: 0

zajd
zajd

Reputation: 761

Long story short, there's going to be more than one file. A good place to start is by looking at the class of the body tag. Generally it references which templates the page is using.

Upvotes: 2

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