Can I import an old site?
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I’m a newbie at WordPress/BoldGrid. I have a site I’ve been building for 20+ years, with probably a couple thousand pages.
What I would like to do is to import everything to a WordPress site, and create a few pages in WP to serve as a front end.
My first question is, can I do this at all?
My second question is, can I do this in bulk, or do I have to import every file (mostly html and css, some txt, some images) one at a time?
Thanks in advance.
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Howdy,
Just to clarify, the site you are trying to import is not currently a WordPress site, correct?
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Right. Approximately 80 full courses (handouts, assignments, etc.), each with its own CSS; plus some other stuff. I’ve been looking at how to convert static HTML to WordPress, but I’d be much happier if I could just put everything alongside WP and just put a few pages as a front end. But AFAIK, WP has to take control of everything on the site.
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Is that a site that is custom and hand-coded? Or is it built upon another platform?
Our import tools do allow you to migrate some content from other platforms (more info here: https://wordpress.com/support/import/) but if the site is hand-coded HTML there is no way to automatically move that into WordPress.com, so you will likely need to copy the information over manually using the WordPress page editor tool to style the pasted content.
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No, I never got into blogging as a way to prepare materials for my classes.
Just to be very clear–my understanding is that everything on a WordPress site has to be under control of WordPress, and have a WordPress theme. It cannot co-exist with other HTML pages. Furthermore, if I want to use WordPress at all for this, I have to dissect each page separately into parts and manually apply a theme to it. Correct?
I also assume I can’t have source code listings in various languages, unless I put them in themed WordPress pages. Again, is this correct?
Sorry to be a nuisance, but I just wanted to be sure before I gave up on WordPress.
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Just to be very clear–my understanding is that everything on a WordPress site has to be under control of WordPress, and have a WordPress theme. It cannot co-exist with other HTML pages.
That is correct. You can embed content from other sources, but even that content will need to be embedded inside of a WordPress page that exists in your site’s database.
Furthermore, if I want to use WordPress at all for this, I have to dissect each page separately into parts and manually apply a theme to it. Correct?
I’m not sure what you’re asking.
A theme is applied to a WordPress site as a whole, and controls the appearance of your content. Any new page you create within a WordPress site, will automatically display as determined by the theme you have active on that site.
If this is about migrating your content, then you’ll need to manually copy your content from the existing site into new posts and pages on your WordPress.com site. But you won’t need to manually apply your site’s theme to those pages as well.
I also assume I can’t have source code listings in various languages, unless I put them in themed WordPress pages. Again, is this correct?
I’m afraid I’m not sure what you’re asking here either.
Do you want to post source code on your site? In other words, you’re writing about code, and you want the code itself visible to your readers?
If so, you do that by adding your code within a Code Block on a WordPress post or page.
If you want the page to actually be created using a different coding language, then you’d need to create and host that page somewhere else, and either link out to it from your site, or embed it in a page on your site. For embedding something like that you’ll likely need our Business Plan, as we only allow oEmbed embedding for a limited number of whitelisted services on non-Business plan sites.
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