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Moving website to wordpress?
Recently I've been wanting to upgrade my website and thought moving it to a wordpress platform would be ideal since it's mostly a php-based publishing website displaying articles and directories. Is this a good idea? I don't know how this will affect my current page links (since I guess I will need to convert them into permalinks?). I don't know how much flexibility I will have with each of my pages and adsense code. Are there any tutorials on the web for webmasters interested in migrating their websites to a wp platform or is there someone who has done this before? Any advice would be appreciated.
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- .Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I did this once with a site that had no traffic. Hated it, and moved it back to a regular website.
If that particular site wasn't so big, I would move it back to wordpress in a heartbeat.
Depending on the size of your site, it could be a huge job. What I suggest you do, is install wordpress in a folder, password protect the folder and keep robots out. Find a theme you like, play around with tweaking it, put ads on it whatever. Add your content to it. With the newer wordpress versions, you can match the links to what you have now. (I moved a friend from a blogger blog to a regular blog and didn't even need to touch her filenames, because of the extension I gave to match blogger.)
It really isn't that hard (unless you have a huge site, then I would say fuggedaboutit!
Alternatively, as long as your regular pages aren't php, you could install wordpress in the root directory, and move pages over (matching them to the url you currently use) one at a time, and delete the old page.
- 1 decade ago
Go to scriptlance.com and hire somebody for this :)
Being greedy and trying to do everything yourself produces a result, when Web suffers of websites, blogs, forums of low quality, buggy, of ugly design, just because site owners didn't want to spend some money to hire a professional webdesigner/webdeveloper to work on their site.
Continue working yourself and you'll see how fast quality of your website will degrade.
