Title: Include legacy HTML content?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Include legacy HTML content?

 *  [paulaeisenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulaeisenberg/)
 * (@paulaeisenberg)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/)
 * I run a community news site, with HTML pages dating from 2002. I hate to lose
   all of that content now that I’m switching to WP 2.7.
 * Is there a way to add category tags to old HMTML pages, so they will show up 
   in WP categories? Say I have a category called “Tech Talk,” and want Tech Talk
   articles from 2006 to appear in a WP 2006 archive of articles. Is there a way
   I could use Dreamweaver to globally add a tag that would accomplish this?

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 *  [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/)
 * (@alanft)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980114)
 * how many pages are you talking about, in how many different categories
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980115)
 * > Is there a way to add category tags to old HMTML pages, so they will show up
   > in WP categories? Say I have a category called “Tech Talk,” and want Tech Talk
   > articles from 2006 to appear in a WP 2006 archive of articles. Is there a way
   > I could use Dreamweaver to globally add a tag that would accomplish this?
 * no, unless this, alan’s plugin, [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-legacy-media/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-legacy-media/)..
   somehow does that.
 *  [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/)
 * (@alanft)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980119)
 * it doesn’t. but… 🙂
 * i was thinking about a way to do this myself. i did exactly this job the manual
   way a couple of years ago with ~60 static HTML pages when I switched to WP, and
   it was a pain.
 * i was thinking about some sort of 2 step process – 1st grepping the pages to 
   abstract the content, then importing that to posts/pages. i guess i should take
   a proper look at the ‘multiple edit’ options you get these days in 2.7.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980120)
 * May not apply directly, but this [wp-hackers](http://codex.wordpress.org/Mailing_Lists)
   thread, “Importing HTML files as pages — been done?” would surely be of interest:
   
   [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024483.html](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024483.html)
 * don’t miss:
    [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024503.html](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2009-February/024503.html)
 *  Thread Starter [paulaeisenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulaeisenberg/)
 * (@paulaeisenberg)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980151)
 * Thank you, everyone. I’ll look into the suggestions. To answer Alanft, there 
   are thousands of pages, in 15 or 16 categories. We publish weekly and have been
   since May, 2002, so we have a lot of articles! Most of them have photos too.
 * A related question would be, “How best to include searching of the legacy content,
   if I can’t actually bring the old stuff into the WordPress format?” Now, we use
   Google site search.
 * [http://www.larchmontgazette.com](http://www.larchmontgazette.com)
 *  [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/)
 * (@alanft)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980167)
 * see if that DITA import works for you. if not, let us know.

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 * Last reply from: [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-legacy-html-content/#post-980167)
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