I created an HTML website in dreamweaver it has a index page, nav-menu and around 10 other linked pages. I did not build the website from templates I just copied and pasted.
I want to upload this website using Wordpress and Ive never done it before. I'm still learning but need help figuring thing out;
I saw that in order to upload the page to Wordpress I need to create a so called theme and in order to do that I need to create different files like index.php, header.php, footer.php etc
My question is do I have to do that process with all my pages?
I mean about.html contact.html jobs.html?
What is the ideal way to do it?
A WordPress template is essentially a set of PHP pages and CSS that defines how your WordPress site looks. Template Development Link
Manually converting your site is going to take time. The advantage of the WordPress site will be that your site will be easier to update down the line.
How difficult building your template and pages is really going to depend on how clean your original css and pages are built.
First, build your template. You are going to try and pull your CSS and apply it to the template pages.
Next, you will need to use the WordPress GUI interface to add pages and include the content from your original site.
Again it is going to come down to how much of your formatting was done inline and how much you leveraged CSS in your presentation. A lot of table formatting for example will be more difficult to translate.
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I have a theme along with every CSS and JavaScript file. I wanted to apply the HTML theme to my WordPress site. However, I do not need any content from my WordPress to be removed or change from their respective locations.
Is there any way that I can migrate my HTML theme to my WordPress without losing the contents and plugins.
Unfortunately the only solution to this is to manually redesign the WordPress website so it will be like your html theme (or hire a designer to do that for you).
We have a asp.net mvc website which is using umbraco CMS system. Now,we want to convert the CMS system to plain HTML pages. We do not have the complete code of the website.
How can we remove CMS system and convert it into flat HTML files easily without writing the code from the scratch for this website.
Why would you want to move away from a CMS? A CMS is build to make things easier and you are moving going back to the dark ages of the internets where we build websites with notepad by typing HTML by hand.
Discaimer: I am an umbraco dev, and I love the product. So I might be biased
To answer your question, I use http://www.httrack.com/ to backup existing (old) websites before moving to a new platform & hosting.
To answer your question:
For every page, view source and copy the shown Html to a new Html file. Make sure you honour the folder structure too.
You could also use https://www.httrack.com/ that might give you what you need.
To try to persuade you not to:
However I would strongly recommend against doing this. Umbraco has great mechanisms in place that give almost comparable speed to a flat file website. It uses an Xml file that gets updated when database values are changed, and builds pages and content from this.
If you flatten your website to plain Html files all your Urls will invariably change and this is super bad for SEO. You will also have a 'mare of a time trying to update the site with new content or editing the same content found across all pages e.g. the main navigation and footer.
I am trying to make a one page landing page. I want the website to be html based and not wordpress based to make managing it easier. There is a wordpress theme that I really like. Can I do this: 1) install the theme in wordpress 2) view page source 3) copy all code 4) open notepad++ and paste all code 5) save as .html 6) upload html page to the same domain
would this result in a functional website? do you foresee any problems?
I found Your post cause same as You I'm total newb to web page building and developing. In the past I've used wordpress theme's to "build and put online" few simple website's - but decided to learn more to be able to create something by myself and have better control of it.
Same as You I thought about using bits of wordpress theme I really like and convert it to html5 - but unfortunately it's not as easy as you described it above.
The way I understand it (someone correct me if I'm wrong please) the main difference is wordpress themes are "dynamic" and html is static kind of web site , and wordpress themes involve different technology (php not html etc) so simply changing changing *.php to *.html will not work:)
there are few ways of doing it though, please find some resources below:
Using HTTrack to convert WordPress to a static website
Tools to Migrate from WordPress to HTML
hope it helps!
I've been running my own blogger website from sometime and now I thought might be the time of some changes.
I'm also a website designer. TBH I suck at PHP but I'm good at html. I have designed a Home page for my site and I Want to put it to my website. But the problem is that the site is running on WordPress theme.
So, is there a way that I somehow put my html coding of Home Page into the theme and the rest remains the same(I mean the rest of the pages).
Thank You
Well if you want to modify the theme, you will have to create a child theme because if the Theme has an update, you will lose your modification.
Create a child theme is not very difficult and the Codex tutorial is not complicated : https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Hope i answered correctly. If not, tell me why.
I am new to WordPress theme development.I need to know how to convert an html page to wordpress theme completely with theme option and how to create widgets for themes.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
The best way to start developing themes is to look at the way existing themes are build and to look at the WordPress codex (as Marc suggested). If you follow the WordPress standards and get used to the system, WordPress is a very flexible platform for building websites.
Another thing: Google is your best friend :) Almost everything you want to do with WordPress has already been asked on Google.
Good luck!
Their are alot of tutorials online but I suggest starting with something simple like this free program from http://www.wpsiteconvertor.com/
Basicaly the whole gist of creating a wordpress theme (lets say you have one page and a style file) you would have to seperate that page into like 5 files minimum header.php, footer.php, index.php,you would also need to make style file changes and add a functions.php file. But take a look at that program above and you will see what kind of codes are added to a site to make a wordpress theme work.