{"id":757,"date":"2013-07-05T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T20:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/2013\/07\/05\/how-to-use-ftp\/"},"modified":"2022-07-01T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:48:58","slug":"how-to-use-ftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/how-to-use-ftp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use FTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2> \tFTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method for moving files in bulk across the internet.<\/h2>\n<p>It is more reliable and much faster than email.&nbsp; FTP involves using software you install on your PC (the client)&nbsp; to connect to an FTP server where you upload and store the files.&nbsp; The stored files can then be used by a website, or they can be downloaded by another FTP user.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different FTP clients (software programs) that you can use for FTP, but we recommend the FREE <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/fireftp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FireFTP <\/a>client. This runs within FireFox which is also FREE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Please install FireFox first if you don&#8217;t already have it, then add on FireFTP.<\/p>\n<p>There are several sites that offer tutorials on how to use Fire FTP.&nbsp; A couple of the better ones can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Please note: These tutorials may not look exactly like the version of FirteFTP that you may have, but the differences should not be significant enough to cause confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Note &#8211; FTP requires an FTP account on a server.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re a WebSmith Cloud client, please <a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=7&amp;Itemid=108\" title=\"Contact\">CONTACT US<\/a> for information on setting up an FTP account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"next-jck\"> \t<a href=\"http:\/\/fireftp.net\/help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click For FIRE FTP Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method for moving files in bulk across the internet. It is more reliable and much faster than email.&nbsp; FTP involves using software you install on your PC (the client)&nbsp; to connect to an FTP server where you upload and store the files.&nbsp; The stored files can then be used [&hellip;]\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotowebsmith.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}