I am web developer but haven’t worked with wordpress much , recently I got a remediation request for a wordpress .
Here’s what I got .
1. I got the FTP credentials for the files
2. i got the wordpress creds it’s a staging website .
Let’s suppose I identified a CSS issues ok the page and want to fix it , I make changes to the FTP files directly and can see the changes live on staging website?
That’s how it works or like what ? It’s a live website I don’t wanna mess any live website up so how do you work with remediation anything will be helpful.
As of now I have developed few website from scratch and it’s mainly GitHub making changes and pushing changes haven’t worked with WordPress wanna know how a ideal remediation process will look like?
Edit : Also is there any way I can open whole site folder that I got from FTP ( using Filezilla ) in a VS code ?
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Install a backup plugin in WordPress. Run it, download the backup and install it locally using Local from localwp.com. Don’t touch the live site until you are much more familiar with how WordPress works. It uses a database. Don’t touch/change any files in the theme folder. Learn what a child theme is.
> Also is there any way I can open whole site folder that I got from FTP ( using Filezilla ) in a VS code ?
You’ll need database too.
As /u/bluesix suggested:
* install localwp (https://localwp.com) on your PC
* install backup plugin on staging
* create backup
* download it
* import it into local WP
That’s all. Start learning and enjoying WP..