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I was asked to take over admin duties for an organization site hosted at HostGator. I discovered it was a wordpress site with premium theme. I have never used Wordpress before, but really want to (previous experience in Dreamweaver and Adobe Muse).

I have need to be able to edit the pages and add content. I believe that I have to do this from Wordpress.org, is this correct?

I do not have the Wordpress.org login credentials associated with that site. I know I can site map the domain to my Wordpress.org account, but I don't believe it will transfer all the files and current format.

I am starting with nothing but the ability to see all the files already uploaded into HostGator. Wordpress was already installed and everything uploaded into the HostGator account (my other sites are at GoDaddy, so HostGator is also new to me).

Is there any way I can edit this site, and access the content either through HostGator or Wordpress.org?

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If the files are hosted on HostGator then you wont need a wordpress.org login, it will be user credentials set up when the site was created on that server. You'll need to contact whoever set up the site to gain access to the existing content. – Vince Pettit Sep 19 '12 at 16:04
Thank you Vince. I have access to the HostGator site. How do I edit the site content? Add pages, add/delete/change text, post documents, images, etc. – wpnewbie Sep 19 '12 at 16:36
Through HostGator, I mean. If that is the way I'm supposed to do it. Thanks! – wpnewbie Sep 19 '12 at 17:25
By "access", you mean FTP right? – Joseph Sep 19 '12 at 17:30
Sorry, should have clarified. I have access to a CPanel at HostGator. I was having trouble finding the actual "page" files, not being familiar with how WordPress files are laid out. – wpnewbie Sep 19 '12 at 17:32
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Create a new FTP user in CPanel. Using an FTP client, such as FileZilla, download all of the site's files to your machine and edit which ever ones are necessary (in wp-content/themes/[theme name]). If you need access to wp-admin and you have access to PHPMyAdmin, check out this tutorial.

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That link will be very helpful, I should be able to get in from here. Thank you! – wpnewbie Sep 20 '12 at 12:13
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To edit pages and add content to the WordPress site, you need to login to the WordPress backend. It's probably located at http://[your domain]/wp-admin/

Navigate there and you should be greeted with a login prompt. That WP login has nothing to do with your HostGator credentials. And Vince Pettit had it right: this login is independent of any login at wordpress.org.

(Whomever gave you access to the HostGator cPanel should able to give you the WordPress login too; if they can't, you can manually get around this by editing the MySQL tables via the cPanel, but that goes beyond the scope of what you're asking for here.)

Once you're in logged in, you'll be able to edit site content.

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I'm not able to get the WordPress login. This is exactly what I needed to know, thank you very much! Joseph gave me a link to edit the MySQL table to gain backend access, so I should be good to go. Thank you very much! – wpnewbie Sep 20 '12 at 12:54

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