Hi All. I'm a non-techie that is getting pulled into having to play my own tech support and hope someone can help me out.
I have a website that was built by a 3rd party company that hosts it on their own servers, with their own software (i.e. not wordpress). I want to go away from them completely and have paid for someone to duplicate the site in wordpress.
Now, I have hosting set-up on Bluehost (where the name was purchased) but I can't figure out how to upload the site from my new designer to wordpress on Bluehost. I have installed wordpress but when I go to edit, I get nothing – no dashboard or anything.
The non-help desk chat says I have to point the domain to them before I can see anything in the dashboard. This seems to defeat the purpose of building, testing and review and then ONLY after it is in good shape I point the domain to Bluehost servers.
No one over there can explain anything in plain english. I'm hoping someone here can help me understand what I'm missing and what steps need to be done.
Thanks in advance!
Your dev guy should be the one to ask as they will have access to your account control panels.
You might want to do some research into hosts before going with BH [https://new.reddit.com/r/webhosting/search/?q=bluehost](https://new.reddit.com/r/webhosting/search/?q=bluehost&restrict_sr=1)
It’s not hell, you just lack the technical knowledge.
Sounds like you want to set up a staging site before going live. Create a new subdomain and point it to blue host and work on the site. When you are ready to go live change the live dns to your staging and update your WordPress paths to the new domain.
Your developer/designer needs to upload(migrate) the website on your server.
If he doesn’t know how to do that, I can help to migrate the website.