Converting my website to wordpress?

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    hanikhattab · Member ·

    Hi,

    I have a full website that I made using HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript. I was wondering if it is possible to convert it in WordPress and be able to make changes here?

    I hope you can help.
    Kind regards,
    Hani Khattab

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hello Hani,

    It’s possible, but not simple.

    WordPress is a CMS (Content Management System), so already comes with it’s own HTML (created via PHP files), CSS and JavaScript (typically as part of the installed theme and plugins). So there’s no way to just take your existing source code and upload/import it to a WordPress site.

    If you have a specific design or functionality you need to port over, you’ll have to create a new WordPress theme and/or plugins to do that.

    And as for the content, you’ll have manually copy-paste that into new posts or pages on a new WordPress site.

    There might be existing WordPress plugins that allow you to scrape content off an existing static website and then automatically create new posts or pages using that content, but the folks over on WordPress.org would be better able to advise you on something like that.

    Note that to use any third party or custom built themes or plugin on WordPress.com requires our Business Plan, and we don’t offer any direct access to the source code on WordPress.com sites. If you want that level of access, you’ll need to set up the open source version of WordPress on your own server or at a hosting provider like Bluehost or Pressable instead.

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