How to upload an existing website to wordpress

  • Hi everyone,

    First of all thank you all for helping with this issue that I am having, it is greatly appreciated. So my friend asked me to help with an issue he is having with his website. He contacted a third party company to create a website for him from the looks of the site it seems to be a wordpress site but I guess to took it off WordPress so that they can charge him in order to make edits on the site. They gave him the css file and html files. The Theme they used was ORI Is there anyway to take this site and put it back on WordPress, and not change the url so that he doesn’t have keep paying to make edits?

    Thank you!

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  • The way that they’ve done it, there’s no easy or simple way to get it back as a WordPress site. That’s becuase they’ve converted the site to pure HTML files, so there’s no longer any WordPress involvement with building the pages at all.

    The wya to re-build it would be to set up a new WordPress installation, purchase the theme again (unless you can re-download it from somewhere), set up the changes in the theme in a child theme, and go back and set up the pages and content again. You might not be able to get ti back exctly like it is, but it will be as close as possible.

    Thread Starter jaisonv17

    (@jaisonv17)

    Interesting, thank you for clearing that up. I’m guessing that a lot of companies do this, in which they build the site on wordpress(since its very easy) and then remove wordpress from the site, so that only the developers can edit the site.

    Thank you again,
    Jaison

    No… I have actually never heard of another company doing this. From what I can see it’s a complete waste of time for them to do it that way.

    By the way, there’s no simply “removing” WordPress from the site. WordPress powers pretty much every part of it, so the site won’t work at all without it. If they have done this the way that you’ve siad, they’d have built the site in WordPress originally, and then used a scraing tool to create a HTML-only copy of the site. It’s more work, more ot go wrong, and gives less functionality at the end of it all, so it would be a very silly way to work.

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