Migrating site to WordPress – easy way?

  • Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    A hopefully simple question:
    I have a site made with Dreamweaver which I will transfer to WP (using it as a CMS) and I wonder what is the easiest way to prepare the main contents of the old pages – to avoid broken links etc.
    Am I thinking right here:

    • I can leave the image files where they are – no need to move them to eg. an upload folder.
    • For each old page I’ll run a search/replace in the code to change the image file paths from relative (../../fig/image.jpg) to absolute (http://www.site.no/fig/image.jpg)
    • For the internal links between pages, can I do something similar?

    Or is there any even easier way to do it?
    I have about 250 pages to work on, so good ideas are much appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Kjetil

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  • Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Noone tried…?

    mechx1

    (@mechx1)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    You will need a Theme. You may be able to use an available theme if it suits your layout, or you will have to build one. See the codex for more on Theme development. Many people have published blogs on developing custom themes.

    Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks – maybe I should have mentioned that I’ve found a theme and all the plugins I need to run this site – with different sidebars for different categories +++
    But, being no programmer, I just try to find the most foolproof way to prepare the Dreamweaver pages’ contents before the tedious copy/paste begins…

    boober

    (@boober)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    theres not really an easy way to do it. sounds like youve already covered the important stuff; changing your urls. you dont have to move your images, as you said, just change the urls.

    ivovic

    (@ivovic)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I would suggest moving the images. You only do it once, and then they’re in the same folder structure to future images.

    Also, if you take the time to upload them using the interface they’ll be referred to in the database for future use.

    Up to you – I’m sure its more effort, but how often are you going to do it?

    Floyd3

    (@floyd3)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    I think the most difficult part is the copy and pasting of 1 page at a time. I’m going through this process right now too, of migrating a raw HTML site to wordpress as a CMS and it’s taking forever. (My site may have over 1000 pages, not sure…)

    Someone suggested you could do a “database dump” rather than copy and pasting but I don’t really know how to do that, so its copy and pasting tediously 1 page at a time into the wordpress create a page thing.

    Thread Starter Kjetil

    (@kjetilgf)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks guys
    Moving the images first is no problem, Dreamweaver updates all links. Uploading them again – not sure. One reason is that in many pages (will-be posts) I’ve had and will have many images in stacks (like down left here) – and frankly I don’t know any way to do this without using tables. (I’ve tried my replace/copy/paste method here.) Maybe there’s a plugin to setup tables; if not it will be even more time-consuming, right?
    I’ve also tried to figure out a way to keep the images sorted in some category-based way, but haven’t found it yet. Ideas?
    Thanks

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