Injecting WP into an existing site

  • I have been asked to convert an existing website to a WP based one. The main reason for this is to allow the owner to easily add new content without sending it to me to create and upload the html files. Currently there is no blog and/or forum, but that may change in the future.

    To start, I want to try this on my local machine, so I installed WP into my local copy of the site and I can access the Dashboard through https://127.0.0.1/MySite/wp-admin. Perfect!

    Since I am new to using WP, now what, where do I start? I want to keep the design close to the current one, so cannot inject a WP theme.

    I already looked at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website, but that assumes the current site is php based, which this one is not.

    I am also thinking about getting a book to use as a reference, any recommendations?

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  • Your book is the Codex. You would need to replicate the site with custom page templates and CSS. All quite doable..

    WORDPRESS for Dummies was a great starter for me.
    When I am doing a site for someone who has a html site. I usually just create a new directory and call it WP and then create the site there on line and then when done, move it to the root directory.

    I don’t know what theme you are using, but if you go here:
    https://www.woothemes.com/videos/

    Woo Themes has some great video tutorials. I learned so much from them.
    Get your self FIREBUG so you can view code and customize css.

    I would recommend them or STRIKING from ThemeForest. They have terrific support and they have a beta responsive theme almost ready to go live. I have been testing a site with the beta and it is terrific.

    Good luck

    Thread Starter eoms

    (@eoms)

    So if I understand correctly, converting each page one by one is the way to go?

    Yes, create a page with same name ie ‘about’ (this is the ‘slug’ and when used with permalink /%postname%/ will be yoursite.com/about)

    Bring over your text from the page (don’t copy and paste from a browser) and add your images…

    Site Display (HTML/PHP site design – layout) and Appearance (CSS) are done with a Parent and Child Theme.

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