Question about wordpress, need some help..

by ej2012

Posted: 13 years ago 5 replies

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I have a domain name.. something.com.. on that domain I have a static html site with index.html as the home page..

I want to convert the html over to wordpress, but I want to install wordpress, edit it etc., without wiping out the html site as I have sales daily and don't want to interrupt the income.

If my understanding is correct, does anyone know if by leaving the index.html in place the static site will remain, then when I am ready, simply delete the index.html along with other pages and then the wordpress site will appear?

or do I need to go about this another way.. maybe install wordpress in a sub folder.. make all the edits, then move wordpress to the root directory?

thanks in advance

ej

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Abledragon 13 years ago

Install WordPress in a separate folder and get everything set up, then switch over when you're ready.

Make sure, though, that you redirect all your current pages to the new WordPress pages because the URL structure will be different. If you don't set up those re-directs you'll lose all your links.

More details here:

Migrate an HTML Website to WordPress | WealthyDragon

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Bradley J Anderson 13 years ago

You should install in a separate folder, but "Yes" if you leave the index.html in place it will continue to function as usual. Once you remove the index.html file, the index.php will begin to be used and WP will be up and running. Is that what you were asking?
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royljestr 13 years ago

Yes it is best to add it into a new folder. Once you are ready to switch to the wordpress site your web host should be able to help you to point your domain name to the right place
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Linda_C

13 years ago

If you put wordpress in a separate folder you can't delete your index.html because the wordpress index.php will be IN THE FOLDER, not in the root where index.html is.

You CAN install wordpress right in the root. It will not disturb your html site at all. Not one bit. IF wordpress is in the root, then you CAN delete your index.html later and have wordpress load as the main page.

Based on your description, this is what you should probably do...

1) Install WP in the root. For now, leave index.html as it is.
2) Build your WP to how you want.
3) Rename index.html to OldIndex.html for testing.

Once you rename the index to OldIndex.html, your index.php (WP) will take over as the main page. If all is good, then delete OldIndex.html.

Your html pages will still be there. You can link to them if you want, or if you want to convert everything to WP, then just recreate the pages in WP and use 301 to redirect from the html to the WP urls so you don't take an SEO hit for changing your page names.