Converting a html site into Wordpress

[Paullas]

I have an old website in html (about 2200 pages) and looking for the quickest way to convert it into WordPress pages.

Any thoughts before i go digging.

thanks in advance

Paul

 

[KarlM]

Have never used it but spotted this

https://htmltowordpress.io/

 

[Paullas]

I have seen this but the site is too big for it to cope

 

[KarlM]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/html-... your conversion,pages on the admin dashboard.

Maybe this

 

[Paullas]

i will try this as well, i am looking at an AI script at the moment so once i find a good solution i will post here

 

[Akuma]

I think it would probably need a coder to manually create something here - the structure of the existing site and the Wordpress template dictate what the migration process would be.

Why are you wanting to move it anyway? I'm doing most of my stuff in plain html \ css now as it's so much faster, secure and easier to manage.

 

[lazarus]

I am assuming you are more concerned with moving the content across rather than the style/layout?

Getting the plain text page content Page for Page into the WordPress database should be easy enough. (Programmatically)
That is... If they all roughly follow a standardised page layout.

For example you could grab the <H1> for the WordPress page title and then some another TAG for your page content.

Then you can just design your WordPress site around it.

Feel free o PM me the address so I can take a look.

 

[ukbackorder]

Can you just use a plugin like HTML Import 2 for the content but set up the database and theme yourself?

 

[Admin]

Hostinger has a good tutorial that covers three ways to do it: https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/how-to-convert-html-to-wordpress

 

[lazarus]

HTML Import 2

That HTML 2 Import plugin looks good.

 

[ukbackorder]

That HTML 2 Import plugin looks good.

Well I asked chatGPT4 out of interest 'what is the best way to convert a lot of html files to wordpress'. The answer was long and detailed with about 10 points but that seemed to be the main point.

 

[Paullas]

Thank you for all the above, i have a plan of action now so will report back if i manage it correctly