Recently I made the decision to change an old website over completely to Wordpress. It had wordpress installed in a /blog directory and I wanted to move it into the main domain. I knew that it would be good for this old site that had been cobbled together with a combination of hand coding & Frontpage. It was badly in need of an update.
I asked around for some recommendations on how to do it and did some reading. I think the best resource that I came across was from the Wordpress Codex on moving wordpress within your site. The other great resource was my computer savvy hubby that said “let’s just do it!”
All in all it went much better than I expected. I am still in the process of changing over some old pages to the new format. It is really important to remember to 301 redirect all the old pages to the new ones. Plus I need to have a new header & logo designed, pick out colors, you know make it pretty. For now though it is so much better than the old site and my traffic from the search engines is already increasing.
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I was thinking of doing exactly that with my old html website but gave up and instead installed the Wordpress on the blog sub-directory /blog.
What I still have not figured out is how do i link the blog to my main domain website (which is in html). Can you please guide me
Secondly what is involved in moving from html to WP site in your current experience. Any pointers to watch out for or consider?
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March 8, 2010 at 7:02 pm
So you have an existing html website with Wordpress installed at /blog? You can easily interlink between the two by linking from blog posts to relevant areas of your website and on the blog you could add a link back to your main site using the Links feature (i.e. blogroll).
Basically moving from html to WP is fairly easy when you follow the directions. I created new pages within WP to mimic those on my main site first, but did not publish them. Once I moved WP up to the main domain, then I published those pages and did 301 redirects from the old pages to the new ones. I created a blank page called Blog as well. Then under Settings, then Reading I set my home page as the static front page and ‘Blog’ for my blog, so that my posts would continue to show up and it gives you the benefit of having a Static site with a blog.
~HTH!