Moving an existing website to wordpress

Hi,

First, you would have to install WordPress on your host.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress

Then, you would need to move your data.
Here are some of the common formats that you can import automatically.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Tools_Import_Screen
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Importing_Content
(RSS might be a good way if you have RSS on your site.)

Depending on how your site was coded, you might be able to find a plugin from https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/
or use the plugin mentioned here to move static pages:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Importing_Content#Importing_from_a_Site_of_Static_Pages

Depending on how many pages you have, sometimes it’s simpler just to manually move the data (good old copy and paste).

And if it does, page rank, SEO may be affected?

You would need to 301 redirect your old links to your new links. You can use a plugin to do 301 redirects.

Let us know if you have further questions.

Honey Silvas,
You appear to be rather knowledgeable on Word Press. I have a site that has been built on v3.9.1, I think and I am thinking about upgrading to v4.0. I am reading a lot of bad news about v4.0 on this forum tho.
My site is not very sophisticated as we do not do any eCommerce or deal with monetary transactions. My problem is that I am very new at WP. Have you experienced bad things with the actual upgrade? success rates?

Thanks,
Carlos.

Hi, Carlos.Rodriguez,

It gets confusing when there are multiple issues in one thread. Can you please create a new thread here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform
and I’ll answer you there.
(You can just copy and paste your question from this thread if you like.)

Thanks!

@ Honey Silvas

Thanks a lot for your informations, very usefull.
But things aren`t so simply because the website has some issues such as database communication error…
May be those errors had to be solved ahead.
I will surely need an excellent php developer.

@soundexpert
You’re welcome.

How much content do you have in your website? How many pages are there?

What is the error message for the database communication error? Is your website live right now or is it not working at all?