Title: Using WordPress functionality higher up the directory tree
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using WordPress functionality higher up the directory tree

 *  [Steve Evans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveeuk/)
 * (@steveeuk)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-wordpress-functionality-higher-up-the-directory-tree/)
 * Hi all,
 * I have a WordPress blog as part of my site. The blog is installed at /blog as
   the rest of the site existed long before. I now want to rebuild the rest of the
   site which is currently completely static.
 * Is there anyway I can utilise this WordPress install to build a homepage and 
   other pages under the root directory /?
 * Could I perhaps create static pages within the /blog install directory and then
   rewrite the URL’s to map to all the old static pages using htaccess?
 * Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
 * Steve.

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