Moving from Dreamweaver to WordPress

  • stunn1

    (@stunn1)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    I decided to move my website to a wordpress template. I designed the template and it’s ready to go. My website was originally made with dreamweaver, and having little knowledge of web design, I created all 200+ pages using only one template on dreamweaver.

    So my question is, if I install wordpress on the server where my website is hosted, will all my content get deleted and overridden by wordpress?

    Or what would be the easiest and most efficient way to move all my content (articles, graphics, forms, etc) to my new wordpress template?

    If anyone has any experience in this it would be VERY appreciated. I just don’t want to lose anything. It’s years worth of content.

    Thank you!

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  • jon

    (@adiant)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    While I’ve never used DreamWeaver, I have converted Etomite (an Open Source Content Management System), FrontPage and hand-coded HTML web sites to WordPress without losing anything. The standard approach is to install WordPress in a folder of your web site, where the general public won’t notice it, and then build your WordPress site there, eventually replacing your DreamWeaver site by deleting DreamWeaver’s index.html file in the root, and having an index.php in the root for WordPress. Full details on getting WordPress to run from the root when installed in a folder are here: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    To be extra careful, as I would be with a project of this size, I’d build the WordPress site elsewhere in a separate file space, get it working there, then move it over to the folder of your real web site as the second to last step in “going live”. Exactly where you do this depends on your web hosting. I use a Reseller account even though I’m not selling anything to anyone. I just like the isolation provided by the separate file spaces for each of my more than 20 web sites. As well as real domain names, I also have a few “fake” domain names (most reseller accounts require that a domain name be assigned to each file space/subaccount, so I just define illegal ones like mydomain.test) that I use to test things, including building complete web sites, or test a WordPress version upgrade on a test copy of my real web site.

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