Moving to root directory while keeping blog portion in subdirectory

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    (@ashe)


    8 years, 7 months ago

    Here’s the site I’m trying to revamp: https://ashewednesday.com/

    I’m trying to simplify my old art portfolio (which used to be a complicated mess of css tricks and other fancy garbage) by making it entirely WordPress powered.
    I like the idea of having a blog on my site (even as a main feature), and originally installed wordpress in a /blog/ directory, but now that I’m trying to upload artwork and reconstruct my old gallery, it just seems obnoxious to have all the artwork stored in /blog/artwork/(category) and I want to move everything to the root directory.
    I know that it’s possible, but my biggest hangup is that my site is currently using iframes with an image map (old news, I know!) and I’m really reluctant to have the index.html just a plain old blog page, because I hand-drew the image map and its sort of been my signature for all the years I’ve had a website.

    Is there ANY way (in layman’s terms) to transfer all the wordpress files up one directory without having to compromise my current index.html layout?

    I’m not great with coding from scratch/terminology but I can follow an example.

    Any help is appreciated. (:

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  • hi this is common, please be aware that wordpress is not just a “blog”. it is a Website Builder. you create pages for static stuff like home, about, contact and so on. you create posts for articles and “blogging”.

    yes you would move the site (blog) to root, you would then customize the home PAGE to what you currently have in your index.html.

    looked at site you probably want to run a left sidebar layout. and drop your design graphic into sidebar widget.

    also one other thing, you have two ways to create your home page.
    goto Pages>create new

    or for a theme goto
    appearance>customize

    *then it would be /artwork/(category)/

    Thread Starter ashe

    (@ashe)

    Thanks so much for the input!

    The sidebar widget thing is brilliant. I’m going to test it out right now, before I move to the root directory.

    please mark thread resolved ??

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