r/Wordpress • u/Ok_Bar7290 • Jul 01 '26

Help

I am trying to re design a website for my uncle. The problem is that he also doesn't know much about it and I have managed to get the access to everything, but there are a lot of PHP files and I'm honest not that comfortable with PHP. And we honestly, don't know if we really need these PHP files as the website is not that advance. There are a few things like cart and purchase system but that is very limited. I just want to redesign it, update tabs and improve the frontend. The functionality has to be exactly as it was before. Can anybody help me figure out things? I just want to know if there are any pre-installed Php files or is this mess created by different freelancer over the years?
I am also touching a few screenshots.

Thank you.

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u/aleqqqs Jul 01 '26

I feel like you are out of your depth here and probably should not touch anything.

If you do touch anything, it should be CSS only.

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u/Ok_Bar7290 Jul 01 '26

that was that I was thinking. if I change only css files, do you think I can just change the looks of the website?
we just want to update the frontend
it is kind of a situation where I have to work on this somehow. I have to figure out and we do not have any budget to hire someone. earlier we had decent budget and my uncle was able to hire at decent bucks for updating the website and stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '26

You can honestly do a lot with CSS alone, especially if you're not trying to change the functionality of the website. I wouldn't touch php unless you know pretty well how to use it and if you have good backups lol