I’m a ux/web designer familiar with many website builders, html and css, BUT I have yet to use WordPress.
I was just offered a gig updating a WordPress site at maybe 5 hours a month, and I figured it would be an easy task just switching out photos and text updates.
Now I am being asked where I will host the site and I have gone down a rabbithole learning how WP operates. Despite reading about the .org and .com difference I am super confused on where to go next.
* I was told the sites use elementor and woocommerce
* I used the site profiler and found the current sites are “self-hosted” and the provider is WP Engine
Does anyone have any insight as to **what questions I should ask next** so I don’t seem like a total idiot? Should I just ask for the login information and go from there?
The person I am in contact with is the business owner and has no idea where the site is currently hosted as she is using another design service to update things.
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*”Now I am being asked where I will host the site”* – by who? For what reason?
WPEngine is a good host – keep the site there.
If you want to work on the site, download a backup of the site and install it into Local ([https://localwp.com](https://localwp.com)). Do not work on the live site.
If you’re not used to WordPress, it won’t be ideal to mess around or anything unless you learn a lot more. The only other ideal option if you still want to continue with them, is either using a whitelabel service or referring them elsewhere.