Migrating from HTML/CSS to WordPress

  • Acerjay

    (@acerjay)


    11 years ago

    Hi. I posted a query on WordPress Forums and it was suggested that someone here might be able to help.
    This is my question:
    I have a website that was created with HTML/CSS and a little bit of Bootstrap JS. When it was created there was no need for a CMS. However times have changed and not we need CMS on the site.
    This is a simple enough problem to solve – except for one point: it has over 2,000 pages!
    Is there a simple way to migrate the site over WordPress without having to do each page individually?
    I’m not partucularly concerned about the design or layout of the site – what I’m mainly referring to is the content. I see that you can import from Blogger, LiveJournal, etc. Is there a tool to help do this into WordPress or one of the supported formats?
    Thanks in advance.
    PS: This is the website in question

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  • RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    11 years ago

    I gather that most of your 2000 pages are all the locations ? Is this correct ?
    You will be able to automate the conversion of these pages into WordPress Pages, most of the effort will be breaking the info out of your html files and creating the big file to feed to a WordPress plugin.

    I did a quick search of the plugins library for “bulk import pages” and among others found “WP Ultimate CSV Importer Plugin”, there are others too.
    You will have to create your overall site theme, your handful of “about/contact/home” pages etc will have to be hand done. Your location selector on your homepage with its javascript etc will come in with modest effort.
    You will want to choose a permalinks style that uses the page name, then your html named location file names will survive unchanged.
    Someone will have to write some code which pulls the page part of your locations files, this will become the page content including html of your new pages. Because your pages are custom, this step will require a custom solution. But after that you will have an easy time. I would expect you to require several attempts before you got a satisfactory result, it is easy to clear everything and start again.

    Goof luck.

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