CMS: A journey into the unknown

Hey everybody here is a little refresher on how to login to your website and connect to the FTP (mac only).

First off go to the website that you leased from Verio (in my case www.heperi.biz). You should see something that looks like this:

As pictured go down to the “meta” section and click “login.” That should bring you to this:

Then quickly go check your email and look for an email sent by Charlotte Anne titled “website stuff” sent Thu, Mar 6, 2008. It will contain your pass but THE LOGIN IN THAT EMAIL IS NOT THE LOGIN, by default it will be “admin”.

So once you’re in that you have full access to your very own blog, go ahead and make yourself an administrative account not called admin. Its regular old wordpress from there.

On to the FTP.

So our websites are all being hosted by Josh Williams and in order to add any themes or widgets to our wordpress blogs we have to FTP (which is basically fancy talk to send) the addons to Josh’s server.

First of all you’re going to need an FTP client to send files to Josh’s FTP server. Josh recommended “Cyberduck” which you can download from www.cyberduck.ch

Open up cyberduck and you should see this:

Click on the Open Connection button in the top right. That should give you a little pull down menu that looks like this.

First of all in the protocol field channel change it from the default “FTP (file transfer protocol” to “SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer)”. Then enter in the server field type in the URL of your site without the “http://www.”

Ok for your username and password go to the google group and download the pdf file named after you (hepi.pdf for example) which will all be under the “Files” section on the right hand navigation tab thingee. Open the pdf and the pass will be up top in green, and the username is just below that. Enter in that info and press the blue connect button on Cyberduck. A warning will pop up that says its an unfamiliar server or something, but just click “allow” and you should be into the server and Cyberduck will look like this:

The bar that crosses the top that originally said “cyberduck” should now have your username @ your website. Also you will notice the pull down menu has changed.

That was about as far as we got, however if you want to upload something to josh’s server its as simple as clicking, dragging and dropping a file on that window in the large area that looks like lined paper. We tried to upload some themes but the wordpress sites themselves are in a part of Josh’s server we currently don’t have access to. It uploaded perfectly fine, its just that it didn’t register within the particular wordpress site we tried, but just because we couldn’t do it doesn’t mean its not possible.

If your on a PC I’m sure the process is very similar however, you will need to find a different ftp client. They’re easy to find at places like www.download.com. It’ll probably look different but if you have the information (username, pass, url) you should be able to do it.