Comments on: Convert Static HTML Site to Wordpress Easily

By: Rony

Rony — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:18:20 +0000

Hi David,
Thank you for the quick reply. I tried your way and some other ways posted on different forum.
Your way is good but i did not know why it did not work for me. I think I am a Dumb a**

Sorry, the site is not uploaded, as I am working on server locally installed.

I have managed to fix the issues mentioned b4. Actually i was missing the tag
“/style.css”

I am new to WordPress (however am not very good with php).

Its a very basic dummy STATIC site that I started of with. Header, image , navigation, main content area, and footer. It not getting dynamic.

I have created navigation link with the help of

The CSS and XHTML coded works well with FF, IE 6, 7, & 8, etc.

I have sliced off the header, the main content(index) area and the footer in their respective phps. All are rendered well in FF and for some reason IE 8 is messed .

Just below my navigation is a banner with a slogan

Something serious is cooking today

Forgot to mention, I’m using 960.gs grid system.

OK, if I want to make the H2 slogan on banner dynamic, how should I do it. Can you please help?

Thanks in advance

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:59:09 +0000

Rony, I would say something is not right, but without a link to see the site, hard for me to guess what it might be. Feel free to use my contact form and send me a link if you would like me to take a glance at it.

By: Rony

Rony — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:22:58 +0000

BTW I donot get to see it in the WP dash board

By: Rony

Rony — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:21:49 +0000

Hi I did try this, the site loads blank, but the css is not loaded.

Am I missing something???

By: John

John — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:58:31 +0000

Hi,
Can you still edit those pages via wordpress or do you have to edit them raw?

By: Free Wordpress Theme

Free Wordpress Theme — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:15:12 +0000

Have you heard of STCFX I noticed that they have a similar theme on that site.

By: cathy

cathy — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:47:54 +0000

Thank you for showing that this does not have to be a nightmare!!

I have searching this subject for many weeks. Thank you for making this valuable post. Now i can finally get my old static site onto the Thesis blog theme.

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By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:16:07 +0000

Eric, if you are seeing the static Home.php page in the Admin area, there is something wrong with the install. Either some files are out of place, or possibly something wrong with the htaccess file. Are you sure your server supports Wordpress?

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:19:42 +0000

I must not be understanding this or something.

1. Install WordPress on the main domain of my site (did that).

2. Copy the index.html page into the default WordPress Theme directory and rename that page to Home.php (did that).

All I see when I load my site whether in WordPress admin area or my actual .com is my old static html page. What am I doing wrong?