Adding wordpress to an existing site

sswats · 27 Nov 2011 at 13:05

I had a website pretty much built for me and have been adding pages very slowly and very badly with my limited HTML skills. I usually cut and paste the whole page and just change text of stuff which is obviously not good enough.

So I haven't given Wordpress a lot of time, but it seems more straightforward without needing coding ability, so am thinking of adding that to my website for new pages.

I would rather not restart building the whole website on wordpress, I would just like to add webpages from wordpress to my website and have it totally integrated.

Is that possible?

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Nov 2011 at 14:29

Why don't you install it into a sub domain and start from there? It doesn't take long to get a wordpress site up you know.

Staffy · 27 Nov 2011 at 15:25

It can be done but it is very awkward and a complete pain in the ***. You would be better off setting up Wordpress or other CMS in the main domain and transferring the content in to that. You may need some .htaccess trickery to get the url's as they were etc..

You could develop the website in a sub domain/sub folder so the design is right then you could transfer it over.

sswats · 27 Nov 2011 at 15:57

Ok cool. I've got it up on a subdomain.

Ok, now to try and match the looks closely enough.
If I start sailing through it I'll transfer the whole website across.

Thanks for the help.

Deleted member 77746 · 27 Nov 2011 at 16:16

Any links?