Importing HTML files

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  bbecula · Member · Oct 30, 2013 at 11:42 pm

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  I currently import book chapters as html files from another site, because it was easier to set up a site the way I wanted it using WordPress. But why maintain 2 sites? Trouble is, I haven’t figured out where to put 200kb html files here. What have I not read?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 31, 2013 at 1:04 am

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  You can’t import HTML files directly to a WordPress.com blog. You can copy/paste each post, but if you can convert it to an XHTML you can just do an Import from the Tools page of your dashboard.

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  bbecula · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 11:23 am

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  @raincoaster: Thanks.

  I tried the XHTML idea, but got 3600 errors on the first validation attempt, many referring to characters (128, 135, …) that I can’t find. This makes XHTML look like a 6-month project. So back to ‘copy-and-paste’.

  But it isn’t posts that I want to copy, it is HTML files that I currently link to. I’d like to shut down the website where they now live, and move them here where I use them. The file-importing page doesn’t know HTML–but then, it doesn’t know XHTML either. I remain confused!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 17, 2013 at 4:51 pm

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  It’s not XHTML, it is XML
  Here is info about importing:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/

  Where is the site you are coming from?

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  bbecula · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 11:42 pm

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  I’ll look at XML, but it sounds foreboding.

  What I do on my WordPress pages is link to, e.g.,

  http://www.electromontis.net/evoligion/_G/index.shtml

  and display what I find there. These pre-empt the display so that the blog disappears unless one opens 2 windows side by side, but they have so much internal navigation, with active subheadings, figures, tables, and cross-links, that I don’t see what else to do.