Converting static website to WordPress

  • Vijay Padiyar

    (@vijaypadiyar)


    14 years ago

    Hi

    I have been using WordPress to publish my blog on my website for quite some time now. Needless to say, it’s amazing beyond words.

    Now I wish to convert my static website https://www.vijaypadiyar.in to WordPress.

    I want to move my entire website to a single WordPress installation, while maintaining the existing folder structure. Currently I have the following subfolders:

    /projects/
    /seminars/
    /personal/
    /contact/
    /links/
    /sitemap/

    I would like to retain these subfolders and the pages in them at the same locations, i.e. no loss of traffic/SEO due to change in location.

    I would like to know how I can add “folders” or subdomains in WordPress, and be able to add pages to any of those subfolders. Of course, the folders need not be physical folders as they are now, as long as the URL remains the same (e.g. https://www.vijaypadiyar.in/personal/index.html).

    Please let me know how I can do this. Any good tutorials or guides would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks in advance.

    Vijay Padiyar

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  • James Laws

    (@jameslaws)

    Pretty simple actually. Just create pages with the folders names and create subpages with the names of the pages in those directories. Search engines will see them as exactly the same, only in a better system.

    Thread Starter Vijay Padiyar

    (@vijaypadiyar)

    Hi James

    Thanks for the reply!

    Yes I figured that I can create pages named after subfolders. But there are complications.

    For example, I have a landing page (index.html) in all these subdirectories.

    Earlier, typing https://www.vijaypadiyar.in/personal would lead me to https://www.vijaypadiyar.in/personal/index.html. But now, these two are going to be separate pages (assuming I add a index subpage under personal page, and use a plugin to add .html extension to page permalinks).

    Secondly, using the plugin mentioned above will also cause <domain>/personal to become <domain>/personal.html.

    Anyway, I will have to work through these problems. Once these design issues are sorted out, migrating the website shouldn’t take much time.

    Thanks and regards

    Vijay

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