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It is a closely-help WordPress secret that the developers forgot to include a feature to save dashboard layout, making all of these movable and collapsible dashboard widgets completely useless. Oh well, things like that happen sometimes. Hopefully, they will address this glaring omission in the next release.

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Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet for converting static HTML to WordPress. Much depends on the complexity and the layout of your current static site. What you need is a script that will read your original HTML files, extract page title, file timestamp, description or excerpt, and body content.

There is a list of allowed HTML tags in WordPress posts: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/allowed-html-tags/ You will need to parse the body of your pages to get rid of any tags that are not on this list. Then your script will need to connect to MySQL and insert this data in all the appropriate tables. Perl is probably the best tool for parsing stuff like this. But I’ve done something similar before with shell scripts and good ole’ awk and sed.

If you want to get lazy about it, perhaps you can use a ready-made HTML parser, like the html2txt. You will lose certain formatting, so some manual tweaking may be required. If you used the same page template for most of your current site, this should not be very difficult.