My question is so stupid and maybe that’s why I can’t find an answer for it, not even reading the wordpress documentation. But I’m really lost here. I have in front of me full access to a server (FTP) and also to its wordpress admin dashboard.
And I cannot find the files of the site, for example www.mydomain.com/members
Where is members? I can’t find it, when I access the server I see the folders wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes, etc… I see an index.php, but I don’t see anything related to the pages I’m looking for.
Can you please provide me some insight on this?
Thank you very much!!!
www.mydomain.com/membersis a URL rewrite to make the URL easier to read.I think it routes
www.mydomain.com/memberstowww.mydomain.com/index.php?action=members, so that explains why onlyindex.phpis visible.Basically, when a request goes to
www.mydomain.com/members, it’s actually going towww.mydomain.com/index.php?action=members. It just looks prettier.WordPress is a web application. The files and folders that you are looking at comprise WordPress. What you do not see is the page content that is displayed on the website. That information is stored in a database on the server. To edit that information you need to do it through WordPress. When a page is requested, WordPress dynamically looks up the page contents that you requested from the database, assembles it into the theme that you have chose and sends it to you as a complete web page.