HTML to Wordpress.

hargi

hargi

hargi

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What would be the best way to go about this.
I have a static HTML site which I now want to convert to a wordpress site.
The HTML site has been submitted to google and as all the links on there.

How would you go about making the wordpress version while keeping the HTML site live... then how would you do the transfer so there is little down time?

Also how would it work so all the Search Engines reflect the new site Would it be a redirect?
TIA
 
How many pages do you have on the static HTML site? Is it the site in your sig?

I'm currently converting a site myself, unofficially, and right now I'm coding an HTML table in Notepad++ before I copy and paste the code into the relevant page on the Wordpress site.

What I'd do, is set up all the pages you need on the Wordpress site so you have blank pages ready. Then copy and paste the HTML code from each page on the static site to the relevant page on the Wordpress site. There's an HTML editor in Wordpress so you can get HTML into a page that way.
 
Cheers Mark no its not the site in my link.

Theres only 9 pages at the moment but need to expand to WP as i need a blog section.

I was meaning do i install wordpress in the root directory of my current site. More that kind of logistics?
 
A simple way of doing this is to first make a global header and footer file (header.php / footer.php)

After you've done that, make a wordpress page template for each page and link it upto each page inside the Wordpress admin.

After you've done this, make some custom fields for each page ouside of the main content body then link them up to the template so you can edit them from the admin.

You can name your files in your wordpress template folder page-{pagename}.php to link your html up to your wordpress pages. See: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Templates_by_page-ID_or_page-Slug
 
hargi said:
Cheers Mark no its not the site in my link.

Theres only 9 pages at the moment but need to expand to WP as i need a blog section.

I was meaning do i install wordpress in the root directory of my current site. More that kind of logistics?
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Ah ok. And no, you don't need to install Wordpress to the root directory. Mine is in the /wordpress sub-directory of my domain. But you'd probably want the Wordpress files in the root directory of your domain, you just don't have to have it there. Have you looked at the following link for setting up Wordpress?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

The reason mine is in the /wordpress sub-directory is that it's actually for another site and I'm just developing it online so I can show people what I've done. I'll have to move it to another domain, should I get the go-ahead to do so, so I can imagine I'll have plenty of fun transferring the Wordpress site between two different domains! :D
 
Marc I to am doing another site for someone. that I have developed o a test domain so will have the transfer to look forward to later :)
 
hargi said:
Marc I to am doing another site for someone. that I have developed o a test domain so will have the transfer to look forward to later :)
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Ah. You might as well drop the Wordpress files into sub-directory then. :)

Best of luck with your project, when I'm ready to transfer the site I'll post back with any info I can find on how to do it in case you want a look!
 
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