How to upload an existing website

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    pablosanchezocal · Member ·

    I have my website html, css, etc. on a folder. Instead of having a ‘Theme’ I want to have that exact website, but hosted by WordPress. How can I do that?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    WordPress is not a hosting provider, but a piece of software you use to create and manage a website. WordPress.com, in whose forums you’re posting now, is a managed hosting provider of that software, and only one of many hosting providers where you can use WordPress.

    A WordPress website cannot exist without a theme active on the site.

    If you have files for a static HTML website with an existing design you want to use, you’ll have to first create a WordPress theme with that design.

    If you specifically want the site hosted with us on WordPress.com, you’ll then also need our Business Plan to upload that custom theme to a site you create with us.

    It is also not possible to upload static HTML files to a WordPress site. WordPress is a content management system, built using PHP. The HTML pages you actually see in your browser are generated dynamically by the PHP code that powers the WordPress software.

    So to host the content you have in your HTML files on a WordPress site, you’ll need to manually copy-paste that content into new posts and pages on a WordPress site.

    Let me know if you have any questions about this.

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