A couple questions

  • Hello everyone.

    I’m brand new to the world of WordPress but have heard so many good things about it. Please pardon me if these are answered somewhere else, I didn’t even know where to begin searching for these.

    I am wanting to use WordPress to overhaul my company website, currently done in Publisher. I’m a little cautious about it of course and wanted to know if you can help with a couple of questions before I dive in.

    1) Can I do a full install, configuration and basically get the entire site up and running in a sub-directory on the domain so as not to take down my site while I’m changing it. Then, after it is fully ready to use, modify it so it is in the root directory?

    2) My current site https://www.capp-ware.com, is bare-bones basic, but I need to be able to keep the number of pages I have and content similar, with direct links as I have now to pages for software I have written. I’ve seen a lot of web site creation tools that give arbitrary numbers and directories for created pages. Well my software is published and used around the world, so have to be able to keep the landing pages for them with the same URL, but I want to have them integrated within WordPress too. Is that possible?

    3) For basic to advanced levels of customization, does WordPress handle pretty well for people like me that have novice web skills?

    I thank you in advance for your help.

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  • 1) Yes, I’ve done it this way, and heartily recommend it. This explains how to “make it live”: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
    though it does not mention the need to rename your existing home page (as you’ll see in the article, WordPress uses index.php as its home page file).

    2) Permalinks should address this. The above documentation page has links to Permalinks.

    3) Yes, if you settle with the customizations available through WordPress itself AND those of themes and plug-ins that actually work with the current version of WordPress. If not, you will require some php, MySQL, HTML and/or CSS skills. The capabilities of your web hosting determines what more you’ll need. For example, cPanel eliminates a lot of technical knowledge on the web host side of things.

    WordPress by default wants to install itself in a sub-directory (my system used “wordpress” off the root).

    Install WordPress in it’s own directory then get your WP site running etc. then “move” WP to the root (the files stay in the sub-directory and a couple of files are copied edited and copied to the root. Be careful on the “move,” just a few steps but they must be done in sequence and properly.

    See the general install info:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Getting_Started_with_WordPress#Installation

    There are some steps that can be taken with redirects and such when WP goes live to minimize any problems with old links.

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