Converting a static site to Wordpress

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Hi,

I'm about to convert website of mine from regular html to wordpress for easier management reasons.

My plan is to back up the files of the current site, then to install wordpress in the main directory using Fantastico, and finally to manually rebuild the content and links.

All of my current pages end with .htm and I know that there is a wordpress plugin which allows for permalinks to include a .htm ending, so all the urls will remain the same in the end.

With the help of the all-in-one-seo plugin I'll also copy all the meta descriptions and meta keywords, so they will remaing unchanged during the process.

After that it will be just a matter of copy pasting the content.

Does anyone who has done this see any potential issues in my plan?
Will google notice and/or penalize my rankings for changing to wordpress?
Anything I should be aware of before starting the process?


Thanks!
#programming #converting #site #static #wordpress
  • You shouldn't need a plugin, just go to your permalinks and create a custom one, like:

    /%postname%.htm (it's been a while since I've done that but that should work)

    When you say you are going to manually rebuild the content, I assume you're not trying to make your current (html) site look exactly the same only have it as a WP blog right? In other words, the site will look totally different as you'll have a "wordpress theme" but the content such as articles will be the same, yes?

    That shouldn't be a problem either. I don't think Google will penalize you. Not sure if any pages would do the "google dance" or not though as there will be new code for each page but overall I don't think there'd be a problem.

    Someone else might have a more definitive answer but I don't see a problem with it to be honest.

    Good luck
  • Yeah, the site will look different, but the content will remain the same though...same number of words, same links, same pictures etc.

    Thanks for your advice!
    I'll go ahead with my plan then.
  • You could just put a .htaccess file in the root with a bunch of 301 redirects that send the old links to the new content pages.
  • Its better to install good wordpress theme and add pages into it in the html format and you can get your wordpress blog site
  • contact me for help.
  • Thanks for all the massages...in the end I managed to do the switch

    Great advise form everybody, and especially from killbedbugs58

    Cheers!
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    • Glad it all worked out. As an FYI, a programmer I talked with recommends NOT using all-in-one-SEO plugin; instead use Greg's high performance SEO plugin because it uses much less code (faster performance).

      It's free; the link takes you there to review it. It really helped me any way.

      Cheers -

      Kimberly
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