Title: Migration from Expression Engine
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Migration from Expression Engine

 *  [arav369](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arav369/)
 * (@arav369)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-from-expression-engine-1/)
 * Hi,
 * I am currently migrating a website from ExpressionEngine to WordPress. I would
   like some help on how to import the themes of the ExpressionEngine website onto
   WordPress, so that I get the same website design in the new WordPress website.
   Is there a way to convert ExpressionEngine templates into WordPress themes?
 * Please post any helpful tips, procedures or references about how I can carry 
   out this conversion.
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [Tammie Lister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/)
 * (@karmatosed)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-from-expression-engine-1/#post-2949054)
 * Hi arav369, I’d say step one is work out what bits are going to translate. For
   instance does your theme have raw html templates (some do) – if that is the case
   you can step back into those then look towards WordPress.
 * Assuming what you have is the ExpressionEngine theme files though, you are going
   to have to get your hands into some code.
 * A few starting points I’d point to are:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout)
   is the ‘motherload’ with regards to information.
 * If I was going to do this myself I’d also look at the default themes with WordPress
   such as Twenty-Eleven to see how the file structure works in a ‘real theme’.
 * I’d probably start with what bits can move over – is there an obvious header/
   footer/content. Then strip out the ExpressionEngine specific functions / calls/
   tags (I am not aware of how / what it puts in themes though). From there you 
   can see what the raw structure is like and add in your WordPress functionality.

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## Tags

 * [conversion](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/conversion/)
 * [ExpressionEngine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/expressionengine/)
 * [templates](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/templates/)
 * [Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/themes/)

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 * Last reply from: [Tammie Lister](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karmatosed/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-from-expression-engine-1/#post-2949054)
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