Before I get bombarded with RTFMs, I did google this, but all I got was tutorials on how to install themes.
I have to change a link for a friend’s website. Normally I would just ssh into the server issue the command vim index.html and change the This to
That, but wordpress is really doing my head in. Changing the link in the index.html file has no affect, and furthermore I can tell that there are some differences that lead me to believe that it is not being used at all
So the first thing I looked at is the .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Next I looked at the index.php file:
<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/
/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
So next I went to wp-blog-header.php then wp-config.php then I just gave up.
What I want to know is what exactly wordpress templates do. Do they just set up some of the CSS code and make it easier to link to blogs and facebook? What I was looking for was something in the wordpress Dashboard resembling this:
Main Page = index.html
But nothing like that exists. There is, under the pages tab a “home” page, and that definitely is the “home page” I enter, but the html code displayed for it in WordPress does not match the HTML code when I click “view page source”. So where exactly is this new code being generated? I need to intercept it somehow and change the link.
Read more here: Tracing Word Press processes