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I currently have a website that is hosted on WordPress. I built a new version of this website and the new version is currently deployed on Netlify.
I want to use the existing url for my WordPress site and copy it over to Netlify. The end goal being that the url will then point to the Netlify site.
Can anyone help me with how this is done?This is my first time doing this and any insight is appreciated.
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Netlify is for static sites only – you can’t use a database, or any backend technology like PHP (eg forms, ajax, search, filtering, ecommerce, etc).
To be able to host a WP site, you first need to convert it to a static site, using something like [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/) – however keep in mind that you’ll need to rerun/regenerate your site and upload it to Netfliy each time you want to make a change (there are ways to automate that, but it’s an advanced topic).
You may also want to look into “headless wordpress”