Title: Misleading link in WordPress theme source code
Last modified: November 6, 2019

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# Misleading link in WordPress theme source code

 *  [theordore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theordore/)
 * (@theordore)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/misleading-link-in-wordpress-theme-source-code/)
 * In this code from a Genesis theme the http:// reference is wrong, and I seem 
   to have no way of finding my About Page OUTSIDE of WordPress.
    <li id=”menu-item-
   93″ class=”menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-
   93″>[<span itemprop=”name”>About</span>](http://localhost:8888/wordpress_new/about/)
   </l …
 * There is no /about/ folder inside the /wordpress_new/ folder. My About page is
   buried somewhere inside the theme folder; but I cannot see it anywhere there 
   either. It is hidden — from my eyes anyway.
 * It looks like the only way to edit text in my About Page is to do that from the
   WordPress Admin dashboard. So, it seems, I cannot use Dreamweaver to tweak code
   on my WordPress page ; because thew page I want to edit in Dreamweaver is hidden.
   Is that right?
 * Sorry .. the printed message above is not showing the “http …” reference. Anyway
   it includes /wordpress_new/about/. There is no folder named “about” inside /wordpress_new/
   or even inside the theme folder.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [theordore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theordore/).

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 *  Thread Starter [theordore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theordore/)
 * (@theordore)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/misleading-link-in-wordpress-theme-source-code/#post-12103511)
 * Sorry, the text editor has cujt out the key part of the source code. Here it 
   is:
 * <li id=”menu-item-93″ class=”menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-
   page menu-item-93″>[<span itemprop=”name”>About</span>](http://localhost:8888/wordpress_new/about/)
   </l …
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [theordore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theordore/).
 *  Plugin Author [Maciej Bis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbis/)
 * (@mbis)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/misleading-link-in-wordpress-theme-source-code/#post-12106260)
 * Hi [@theordore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theordore/),
 * I am not certain if I understand you correctly. WordPress rewrites display the
   raw URLs, eg.:
    `https://website.com/index.php?page=about`
 * to “pretty permalinks”, eg.
    `https://website.com/about`
 * **The pages, posts or any other content that you create with WordPress is not
   hosted/saved in WordPress directory, that is why you cannot find it on your server
   and you will not be able to edit WordPress pages with Dreamweaver.** It is not
   caused by my plugin, that one of the main functionalities of WordPress.
 * Here you can find more info on how “pretty permalinkw” work like:
    - [https://wordpress.org/support/article/introduction-to-blogging/#pretty-permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/article/introduction-to-blogging/#pretty-permalinks)
    - [https://dobsondev.com/2014/10/17/pretty-urls-with-htaccess/](https://dobsondev.com/2014/10/17/pretty-urls-with-htaccess/)
 * The WordPress directory contains:
    - WordPress core files
    - wp-config.php file
    - theme files
    - attachments/uploads (eg. images)
    - plugin files
 * MySQL database contains:
    - posts, pages content
    - categories, tags and terms content
    - theme, plugin & site options
 * Best regards,
    Maciej
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [Maciej Bis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbis/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by [Maciej Bis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbis/).

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 * Last reply from: [Maciej Bis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbis/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/misleading-link-in-wordpress-theme-source-code/#post-12106260)
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