Best way to combine WordPress with my HTML site?

  • I am switching from FTP hosting with Blogger to WordPress. I have WP up and running on my server. Now I need to figure out how to best combine WordPress with my existing site. (https://www.patiastephens.com) I want to have the same setup, where the blog is integrated into my site’s home page.

    With Blogger, I merged their template’s code into my HTML template and published via FTP. Can I do the same thing with WordPress? I’m confused in part because my site is .html but WP uses .php.

    Or is there a better way to do this?

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  • Why not just use wp as a content management system? all the design is (is html) anyways with php tags for the blog. Its sorta hard to explain. Design it how you want your website to look and instead of blogpost, make pages (sorta like blog post) for your content.

    There are separate templates pages for both.

    index.php (not matter how its styled refers to the blog index) so if you have a static page as an index page it will pull the design from page.php

    Thread Starter cowgrrrl

    (@cowgrrrl)

    I’ve considered it, but I put a lot of work into designing my site and don’t really want to have to start all over from scratch. I also don’t want to be limited by WP.

    I’m not sure I understand your last sentence …?

    OK. I guess I do not see wp being a limitation.

    Thread Starter cowgrrrl

    (@cowgrrrl)

    Well, I went ahead and started rebuilding my site in WP, since there seems to be no other way to do it. After two days of work, I can tell you that WP makes things easier (than CSS) in some ways, harder in others.

    I really wish I didn’t have to spend a week rebuilding a perfectly good site just to have a blog on the main page. Sigh.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    If you haven’t gotten rid of your original site, you can integrate WordPress by following this guide:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website

    Thread Starter cowgrrrl

    (@cowgrrrl)

    Thanks. I read over that page, but it seems to assume that your existing site is PHP. What about if your site is HTML?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Your existing site can still be HTML. Basically, just take the index.html file that you want to add the posts to, rename it to index.php (this is necessary for PHP execution and won’t harm anything), and follow the guide linked to above.

    Thread Starter cowgrrrl

    (@cowgrrrl)

    Huh, OK. Thanks.

    Now I am totally undecided because I have already put 2+ days work into rebuilding my site on WP!

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