Title: Localhost install wordpress based on current HTML website Last modified: January 27, 2018 --- # Localhost install wordpress based on current HTML website * Resolved [kiwigrind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiwigrind/) * (@kiwigrind) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website/) * Hello Experts and developers, * I am 18 years old and new to wordpress, I am currently looking to change my fairly new website [http://www.kiwigrind.co.nz](http://www.kiwigrind.co.nz) into a wordpress site for both easier editing and plugins (mainly the plugins, gotta love em!). This website was a base theme which I have coded new features into in order to achieve the current result. * Today was my first time setting up and running a localhost server which I intend to use for inhouse testing prior to making major changes and I am really happy that I got it going! I have an interest in this sort of thing and hope I can progress my learning by being able to convert this site. * P.S. I tried using the following guide but unfortunatly not a satisfactory result: [https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/converting-html-sites-to-wordpress-sites](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/converting-html-sites-to-wordpress-sites) * The above guide end result was just a plain white page (theme did show in the selection for activation but nothing shown.) * I hope you guys can help, if you require any files I am happy to provide. 🙂 * Many Thanks, * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flocalhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/) * (@rossmitchell) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website/#post-9908787) * You have done well creating the present site. Its present form is not in the usual WordPress form, which may give you some challenges. What I suggest is that you transition+develop your site in a few stages. This will present you will numerous challenges, considerable learning of many wordpress techniques. If you do this in steps (even baby steps) I am sure you will manage this given the skills your present website displays. – First choose a theme that essentially provides the overall layout you have, a top banner region, a header with horizontal menu, full width content, footer. Whichever theme you start with, use it as a parent and customise it using the child theme mechanism. Never mind the colours or sizes/ proportions, you will cutomise this with your css. – Reproduce each of your present regions as its own page, so have a separate page for each of home/service/portfolio/ contact, get each of them working and looking right. – Now develop in your child theme a custom page template for your homepage, in it combine all of the elements of your working pages, use a shortcode to incorporate the contact form plugin. * The following links will be useful: creating a child theme [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) shortcodes [https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API](https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API) name for the homepage template from: [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/) * Develop in stages, when you have an issue just start a new thread here. * [Slllobodan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slllobodan/) * (@slllobodan) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website/#post-9912560) * I would google it first for wp themes development resources and some other resources like this: * [https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/converting-html-sites-to-wordpress-sites](https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/converting-html-sites-to-wordpress-sites) [https://medium.com/pixelperfecthtml/step-by-step-guide-to-convert-html-template-to-wordpress-theme-8d89264eb4be](https://medium.com/pixelperfecthtml/step-by-step-guide-to-convert-html-template-to-wordpress-theme-8d89264eb4be) [https://haloseeker.com/3-tools-help-you-to-convert-html-to-wordpress-theme/](https://haloseeker.com/3-tools-help-you-to-convert-html-to-wordpress-theme/) * or maybe even some online tools: * [https://htmltowordpress.io/](https://htmltowordpress.io/) [http://www.themematcher.com/](http://www.themematcher.com/) * Even if you convert it to basic wp theme im sure it would be a lot of adjusting and development. I would just take another wp theme which is really similar like yours in terms of content alignment, menus, etc and just make it look like your original theme using css. * Thread Starter [kiwigrind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiwigrind/) * (@kiwigrind) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website/#post-9912582) * Thanks! I tried the automatic conversion tools but they didn’t seem to work and if they did, there was a charge attached to it. * I am pretty happy as today I managed to recode most of the original theme to reach amazing results with hubspot grading tool * Take a look if you’re interested: [https://website.grader.com/](https://website.grader.com/) * Chuck in [http://www.kiwigrind.co.nz](http://www.kiwigrind.co.nz) No email required * [Slllobodan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slllobodan/) * (@slllobodan) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localhost-install-wordpress-based-on-current-html-website/#post-9912755) * Theme looks grate, good work, simple and elegant I like it. * WordPress gives you a lot more functionality i would still at least try to convert some similar theme to yours using same css styling. 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