Should I download a WordPress site via FTP?

Question

FTP

There is only access to the site via FTP, if I download the site, throw it on OpenServer, lay out the page and integrate it into WordPress, will there be any problems? (Then you will need to return the site back to the hosting)
Or are there any other options?

Answer 1

Greetings!
It all depends on whether you have more adequate methods for resolving the issue, if not, then yes FTP, then what you need ...
Methods for transferring a site to a local area (to Openserver, for example
) DB and throw it on the local.
2) Plugin UpdraftPlus Backup. Also create a copy and upload it to LAN
3) Site transfer via SSH | SFTP. Here, of course, you must have access to the ssh console of the client's hosting
4) FTP access
The minus of FTP access is that if there are a lot of files, then you have to **** wait for the download ..... And the other methods will work many times faster.
Move on...
Everything is pretty simple here. Open the wp-config.php file, there is access to the database.
Next, upload the phpminiadmin.php file to the hosting (to the root)
phpminiadmin.sourceforge.net
Refer to the site at the URL example.com/phpminiadmin.php
Enter the login and password from the database of the working site. You have access to the reduced functionality of phpmyadmin. You can copy the site database from there.
Excerpt from your question:

....laying out a page and integrating it into WordPress, will there be any problems? (Then you will need to return the site back to the hosting)
Or are there any other options?

As an option - you can not transfer the entire site back to the working server, but only update the theme (layout pages) and that's it.

Answer 2

Have you heard about databases?

Answer 3

Well, first read how CMS WP works.