HTML to WP switch - advice needed

easier is to set up everything under .mysite.com/wp

moving wordpress around isn't too difficult once you get the hang of it, but if you're new and you don't have a ton of content, might as well install it in the main directory and use one of these plugins to let visitors know you'll be right back.

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Dosn't wordpress allow you to just upload the whole thing in the root? Because that would be the easiest way.

You could also redirect the subdir to the main page, and then make the subdir throw an 404 Not Found, (you don't want the same page accessible on two urls).

In my opinion the best solution is to connect the whole template into Wordpress and move the HTML contnent into Wordpress - everything will be in one control panel, you will be able to generate xml site map, translate it and more!

Here is how you do it:
- Create a directory in /wp-content/themes/ named MyTemplate
- In this directory name your template-design index.php and your style file style.css
- In your style file put info about your template like this:
- Take a screenshot of your design, re-size it to 300px wide, and put it in your template folder
- In your tempalte do the following things:

Change the link of href="style.css" to:
href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>"

Change your whole menu from this:
<ul>
<li><a href="#">Menu item</li>
<li><a href="#">Menu item</li>
<li><a href="#">Menu item</li>
</ul>

To this:
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1'); ?>
</ul>

(change the depth parameter accordingly to your needs)

Change the place where you have your content to this:
<?php if(have_posts()): ?><?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_date_xml(); ?>
<?php the_contnet(); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

And you are done! Template connected

You can keep the current install and move it to the main directory, I just did a post on this here: Move WordPress Blog To Main Domain

In the WP dashboard general settings change the Blog address (URI) to the new location, then copy the index.php and .htaccess file to the main directory and edit the index.php file to tell it where the actual files are.

Also the HTML pages can coexist in any directory with WordPress so they don't need removed right away.