Integrate wordpress with large HTML site

  • Niveditha

    (@niveditha)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    I currently have a large HTML site with several 1000 HTML pages. Going forward I’d like to have wordpress. Basically i want the index.html to be the new wordpress theme site (which will have a different look of course). And I want to have an archive link on the wordpress home page that links to my old HTML pages.
    Is that possible?
    Can the robots see the 1000s of HTML pages if wordpress is in the root directory? Or must I do something else to preserve the robots crawling up my HTML pages and have a wordpress index / home page.
    Thanks.

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  • Gary Pendergast

    (@pento)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi @niveditha!

    You can absolutely do this! If you rename your index.html to something else (say, archive.html), you can link to that file from within your WordPress install, and allow WordPress’ index.php to take care of everything else.

    WordPress will continue to respect your existing HTML pages – it won’t try to override any existing filenames, so your HTML pages will still be readable by your visitors, and crawl-able by robots.

    Thread Starter Niveditha

    (@niveditha)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Whenever I try to access any HTML page, I get a server error. Oops that page cannot be found !

    Gary Pendergast

    (@pento)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Well, that’s not what we want.

    Is this error coming from your web server (usually a very plain page – just black text on a white background, or possibly with your host’s branding on it), or is it coming from WordPress (has your WordPress theme styling, with the error where the page content usually would be)?

    Also, could you post a copy of your .htaccess file?

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