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Best way to change a website to a WP platform?

by Janice Sperry
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I have a website with 37 articles that I would like to change to a WordPress foundation. My hosting is JustHost with cPanel, etc... It is PHP so a page would look like mydomain/keyword-phrase.php... I don't mind changing one page at a time I just don't even know how to start. JustHost has Fantastico which I understand is the easiest way to download WP but since my site is already built on another platform I need some help.

Step 1 - Turn on computer
Step 2 - ???
#change #platform #website
  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    What is the domain and I could convert for you.

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  • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
    If those are static pages - Copy text, and paste them into wordpress pages.

    If your using a database driven content management system - you might be able to get an import script to convert the database from what your using now, to a wordpress database.
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  • Profile picture of the author Caleb Spilchen

    but since my site is already built on another platform I need some help.
    First of all, Wordpress contains importers for the following systems:

    -> Wordpress
    -> Blogger
    -> Typepad/Movable Type
    -> RSS

    There may be plugins as well for other ones, that you could consider. I don't know the names off-by-heart though.

    What platform are you moving from?

    Caleb
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