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1. creekdweller
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   My existing website has hundreds of pages of content currently maintained using Envision Web. This works okay as we have just one author and we're able to maintain a consistent design using templates. Now we're planning to add a blog and since we're installing WP anyway it seems like it might make sense to use it for CMS over the whole site if that's feasible. I'm not sure it would be, though.

   One issue is converting existing html pages to WP pages. The content is almost entirely text, nothing fancy going on, but I still imagine a hugely labor-intensive conversion process, where each individual page is converted by setting up a WP page, copying content from the old page, and fixing formatting and so forth.

   Another issue is that many sites link to pages within our site -- in fact, several pages rank above out home page as landing pages. We would either have to find a way to keep the same URL for these pages or load up .htaccess with redirects.

   Is there a reasonable way to do this? Or should I give up on the idea and just build the blog into my existing un-CMS'd site?

2. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Never heard of Envision web. Pretty sure there is no WordPress plugin to import its content into WordPress. That would have been great as you are talking hundreds of pages. But if it all mainly text and styled with HTML/CSS. For each particular style you would have to make a WordPress page template. And the you would have to make categories and pages as well to divide all content properly. While adding content to the new .php WordPress pages you could slowly start redirecting to new content using 301 redirects a section at the time.
   Your other ranking issue can be resolved with htaccess 301 redirects as well. That way you do not loose visitors and redirects search bots to the new location.
   All in all quite some work, but it could be done in stages and maintaining the site using a CMS like WordPress would make life a lot easier.

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Importing from [X]HTML

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

4. Rhand
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @ Esmi http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-html-pages/ looks promising as long as HTML is well formatted.
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ is really neat. Will remember that one!

5. creekdweller
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, folks, I'll check out those resources. As for Envision Web, that was a brain cramp, I meant Expression Web, Microsoft's successor to FrontPage.

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