I am not a regular user of WordPress. I have heard of it, but I have never actually created anything or used it regularly. However, I have been asked to work using this system.
The task I have been assigned is to transfer a website that is hosted on a server to WordPress so that it can be easier and more dynamic to change its appearance. Can anyone help me with this?
Here are some important points about this task:
* The objective is to import the website folder into the WordPress system.
* The website should remain hosted in the same location where it currently is.
* The website is currently operational and cannot be offline for too long.
* The person who will be using it has no programming knowledge or in-depth computer system knowledge, and they want to be able to easily change the website’s appearance as WordPress allows.
If anyone can help me import this website into the WordPress system, I would be very grateful.
If any further details are needed to complete the task, I will provide them. Thank you to anyone who can help.
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You’ll have to re-create everything in WordPress you can’t just import HTML files and folders. Just hire someone and prepare to pay, as this is not a simple project
WordPress doesn’t work like that unfortunately.
You didn’t say how the existing website works, but chances are it will need to be rebuilt in WordPress.
To do what you’re asking most likely requires a good understanding of wordpress template hierarchy, post types, HTML/CSS/PHP, ACF/Gutenberg, databasing, and how DNS works.
You’ll also need to rebuild the site on a temporary domain for testing then move that across to your live domain. It’s a lot to learn for one project so I’d recommend hiring a developer to do this for you.
If you’re a developer, it’s a pretty eash task. If you’re not a developer, you will need to hire someone to convert your existing site into a WordPress-based site. Attempting yourself will probably end in disaster.
Easiest place to start would be to get WordPress installed on a subdomain (e.g. [dev.yourdomain.com](https://dev.yourdomain.com)).
Then you’ll have to export the data from the current site (posts, pages, etc…) and then import it into WordPress. You could probably use a plugin such as WP All Import for this, or create your own script that pulls data from your live database & then programatically imports the posts, pages and whatever other data you may have into your new site. Create something that runs via cron each night so that updated/new content is automatically imported into your new site.
You’ll need to obviously develop a theme, and whatever necessary functionality is required.
Lots of testing, triple checking all data has been brought across, get everything configured how you need it to be configured, get the site transferred to whatever server it needs to be on & perform the necessary changes (DNS, server config etc…) to get the site loading on the main domain.
The above paragraph is a pretty condensed version of what you’ll need to do, but anyone that knows how to migrate a site will be able to handle that.
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You would have to use page builder and rebuild everything from scratch. Although there are better way, to avoid doing that everything you change WordPress, but that is more focus on developers/designers which can also. be more stable and secure than page builders.
Even if the person does not need programming, they need to learn how to use page builder effectively and that may be difficult if the site evolve.
Without knowing what your site are, I can randomly suggest getting a developer to craft “frontend” from your imported folder and connect to headless WordPress. And you can find a gentle documentations that everyone can learn HTML and change within minutes and get the visibility what has been changed.