Title: Need super-simple HTML/CSS to WordPress conversion help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need super-simple HTML/CSS to WordPress conversion help

 *  Resolved [AlliedMoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alliedmoon/)
 * (@alliedmoon)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/)
 * Yes, I’ve read the other threads on this, but they all discuss heavy customization
   or ground-up building of themes
 * I really just want the html to be exactly the same but work in WordPress. Unfortunately,
   the code doesn’t seem to be delineated in an easily parsed way. I tried following
   both tutorials, but the html doesn’t have sidebar information and I get tangled
   up in the creation of a bunch of irrelevant php files. I’ve also tried dropping
   the stylesheet and index into a simple theme, but that doesn’t work either.
    
   [ This is the template I want
 * If it wasn’t obvious that I am a complete n00b before, I am. This is my first
   attempt at anything other than basic html and I feel like an idiot.
 * Let me know what I can do. I’m even willing to pay a coder to do this for me.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037302)
 * I can’t seem to get to your template demo but that ‘bunch of irrelevant php files’
   is probably the very theme files that you need to edit/create in order to create
   the markup/design you want. Dropping a standard index file into a WP theme won’t
   work because you won’t have all of the hooks and functions that generate the 
   headers.footers sidebars etc.
 * Drop me a line at esmi at quirm dot net if you want to take this offlist.
 *  Thread Starter [AlliedMoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alliedmoon/)
 * (@alliedmoon)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037385)
 * Thanks. Let me clarify where I get snagged.
 * Following the tutorial, I’m parsing out the header and footer and creating separate
   php files. There are a couple of other elements- no sidebar, but a contact box,
   a gallery, and a “showcase.” I tried parsing each of these elements between the
   <div> markers and saving them as individual phps.
 * Then in the index file, I’m replacing the code with a <?php command for each 
   element.
 * Once I upload the phps, the index (saved as a php), and the style css file, I
   thought it would work.
 * Instead, the template is blank, with some extra bracketed code at the very beginning(
   from the header, I guess?) and no style sheet integration at all, just a mess
   of text on a white background. I’ve activated it- you can visit my page to see
   the wonkiness: [http://www.alliedmoon.com](http://www.alliedmoon.com)
 * Hope that makes more sense. Any help would be greatly appeciated- I’m pulling
   my hair out over this.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037390)
 * stop editing .php file using word. use a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR.
 * what you see there is a result of that.
 *  Thread Starter [AlliedMoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alliedmoon/)
 * (@alliedmoon)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037398)
 * I used Text Edit, not Word. Is that not good enough?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037401)
 * i dunno, but that’s definitely whats going on with what I saw on your site.
 * if you need more, chceck [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format)
 * see the example,
 *     ```
       {\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard
       This is some {\b bold} text.\par
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [AlliedMoon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alliedmoon/)
 * (@alliedmoon)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-super-simple-htmlcss-to-wordpress-conversion-help/#post-1037404)
 * Text Edit had some defaults that were making it rich text.
 * Thanks, whooami, I wouldn’t have checked that had you not mentioned it.
 * It’s working now!
 * ~A

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