Tripped Up At The Starting Line

  • I am in the process of creating a WordPress site based on a web site I built with Front Page many years ago. I’m able to recraft many of the pages by hand but think that the process would run better if I ran the site through HTML Importer 2.

    The url for the site is

    I used WinSCP to copy the file tree to the WordPress server machine, with the tree rooted at /home/localadmin/usml/

    The current site uses frames. Here’s the text of index.html

    <html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>USML Rotisserie Baseball League</title>
<meta content="none, default" name="Microsoft Theme">
</head>
<frameset rows="124,*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">
	<frame name="banner" scrolling="no" noresize target="contents" src="banner.html">
	<frameset cols="150,*">
		<frame name="contents" target="main" src="side.html" scrolling="auto">
		<frame name="main" src="rules.html" scrolling="auto" noresize>
	</frameset>
	<noframes>
	<body>
	<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
	</body>
	</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

    Here’s how I set up the files tab on the tool:

    Directory to import /home/localadmin/usml
    Old site URL https://usml.net
    Default file index.html

    I wasn’t sure what to do with the content tab and set it to Import entire file.

    When I run the imported I get the following message:

    No posts were found with the URL_before_HTML_Import custom field. Could not search for links.

    If there’s relevant Front Page information that wasn’t preserved when I copied the file tree, I tried to work with a simpler subset of the site.

    I have a file named predictions.html in the top level directory for the site which is of the form:

    <html>

<head>
<title>Prognosticators Alley</title>
<meta content="cascade 1011" name="Microsoft Theme">
</head>

<body>

<h1 align="left">Prognosticators Alley</h1>

<h2>2015</h2>

<ul>
  <li><a href="predictions/2012FinalUSML.htm">2015 Final Report</a></li>
  <li><a href="predictions/2012FinalUSMLRosters.htm">2015 Final Rosters</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

[many similarly formed entries deleted]

<h2>1990</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="predictions/90final.html">1990 Final Report</a> </li>
</ul>

<hr>
<h2>1989</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="predictions/89final.html">1989 Final Report</a> </li>
</ul>

</body>
</html>

    I had hoped that I might be able to run the tool as follows to at least import the subtree.

    Directory to import /home/localadmin/usml
    Old site URL https://usml.net
    Default file predictions.html

    But I got the same result.

    Clearly I’m missing something important.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/import-html-pages/

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