Uploading current site to WordPress

That’s not a WP site visible there?

So I did something wrong?

Do you have an old HTML site at that domain? Or is WP installed in a sub-directory perhaps?

It is my current html site. I created it in Dreamweaver and now I want to manage it in WordPress.

I used FileZilla to transfer the WP files to my public_html on my host. I followed some videos from YouTube and instructions from Hostmonster and WordPress.

It’s been such a headache.

You cannot just plop static pages into a php based site. You’ll have to start with a WP theme and create the site in WordPress.

Generally trying to move HTML pages into WP does not work well.

OK. Guess I just learned a valuable lesson.

Luckily, it’s very small yet so I can start over. I want to move it to WP for all of the great widgets, etc. that I don’t know how to create on my own. I’m very green. Just ripe enough to cause damage, but not ripe enough to pick. ??

Thank you very much.

That looks quite doable :). Have you seen this –

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Getting_Started_with_WordPress

It might be helpful – and even though there’s a lot to learn at first, it gets easier once you get a few basics set up.

Where is your site hosted?

It’s hosted at Hostmonster.

I use WP with other sites that I manage. This was the first time I’ve ever created on and then tried to move it to WP.

Ah, then you already know what to do :). If you want to make a theme from scratch, this would be the place to start:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

Or you could use a barebones theme like Toolbox or BlankSlate

But can’t I just use my own theme or color scheme? That was one thing I was concerned about. Having to settle for someone else’s colors and set up. My client wants a simple and clean page, like I have now.

You would need to create a functional WP theme (not a static site). And you can always modify an existing theme however you want – though it generally takes some (or a lot) of knowledge of HTML/CSS and WP code.

The themes above have very little styling – the point of those themes is to give you the WP functionality and some basic structure and beyond that, you make the site however you want it.

Sounds like a lot of work. Think I’ll just leave it for now.

Thanks for all the great information!!