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Linking from WP to static site?

by katied772
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I have a static site (about 3 years old) that I don't want to change to WP at this time. I also have a WP blog with the same name (static is with hyphens, WP without). The static site has a good number of pages, the WP blog only a few at this time. I link from my static site to the WP blog with a button in the nav bar on my static site. How is the best way to link from the WP site to the static site so it appears to be part of the same site? Thanks.
#linking #site #static
  • Profile picture of the author BenFromSoMo
    Why don't you just do the same thing, putting a link in the nav bar?
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Do you mean for the visitors or for the search engines?

    It will always look like a different website to the search engines, because it is.

    If you are doing it for the visitors (im assuming so) then just change the layout of the static site or the WP site to match eachother. - This will involve some html coding.

    Why not just transfer your static site to WP and use the same theme?

    There is also a way of converting a static CSS theme into a WP compatible theme but it is a long convoluded process by memory.

    Cheers,
    Dave
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    • Profile picture of the author katied772
      Originally Posted by dadamson View Post

      Do you mean for the visitors or for the search engines?

      It will always look like a different website to the search engines, because it is.

      If you are doing it for the visitors (im assuming so) then just change the layout of the static site or the WP site to match eachother. - This will involve some html coding.

      Why not just transfer your static site to WP and use the same theme?

      There is also a way of converting a static CSS theme into a WP compatible theme but it is a long convoluded process by memory.

      Cheers,
      Dave
      I don't want to transfer it because I will probably really mess it up. It sounds quite complicated (maybe not for a techie, but that's not me). The templates of each are generally matching each other now. Is it best to just list the static site as a page or category linked to the static site?
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      • Profile picture of the author dadamson
        Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

        I don't want to transfer it because I will probably really mess it up. It sounds quite complicated (maybe not for a techie, but that's not me). The templates of each are generally matching each other now. Is it best to just list the static site as a page or category linked to the static site?
        Fair enough.

        An easy option to trasfer the static site to Wordpress is just copy all your main content into text files and then overwrite everything with a WP installation, then just start from scratch pasting your content in WP pages.

        Don't leave the site unavailable for too long though, you could hurt your rankings.

        Otherwise, I don't see anything wrong with adding the link in the Nav bar myself. Even if it does go to an external site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnnyC123
    Just merge the two sites..

    Here's an example of how I did this:

    This is the original site:
    Herdin' Scene
    dividendreinvestmentplans dot com dot au /_export

    Here is the updated site:
    Herding Scene
    herdingscene dot com dot au

    This took a fair while and we used a wordpress plugin called HTML Conversion which converted the previous HTML (Built with Dreamweaver [ugly frames]) into WP ready pages.

    Then why I did was took the content from blogger using tools and applied it to the site (as blog posts)

    Now all the content is centralized and there's just some tidy up work to be done. This took about a day with 2 people working on it.

    Regards,
    John
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