Comments on: Moving a WordPress Installation http://marketingelf.com/wordpress/moving-a-wordpress-installation/ Creating Magic on the Web Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shannon http://marketingelf.com/wordpress/moving-a-wordpress-installation/comment-page-1/#comment-1350 Shannon Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:02:27 +0000 http://marketingelf.com/?p=369#comment-1350 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! 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!

]]> By: my http://marketingelf.com/wordpress/moving-a-wordpress-installation/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 my Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:23:27 +0000 http://marketingelf.com/?p=369#comment-1346 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? thanks My Follow me on twitter @rbtoday 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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