Transferring a site to Wordpress hosting

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The resource is very popular both in Russia and abroad. Even projects originally created on HTML or other (not so popular) engines are moving to WordPress one after another. Other CMS use ready-made templates with easily adjustable parameters for different systems. But with WordPress, everything is not so simple.

1. Preparation .

The first and obligatory step is to back up manufacturing email list the current version in case of errors, and also to have something to compare the corrected fragments with. It should be noted for installation in the administrator console of forms, additional modules and other functionality. The necessary plugins are selected.

Here's what you need to do during the preparation stage:

study everything that will be moved to the new platform, components, navigation, etc.;

conduct a content audit to detect low-quality materials;

identify all the components that interfered with the website’s progress or slowed down its operation;

If you have never worked with WordPress before, then get up to speed.

2. The WordPress installation process .

To ensure that the site works without failures during the conversion of all components, it is better to perform all operations on a local server. You can safely and correctly transfer a site to a new hosting – in this case, to WordPress – using the widely known Open Server program. It has all the necessary tools for working with databases, converters, and a console.

Download the engine from the official page and, after unpacking, upload it to "/domains/newsite" (in the Open Server directory). Then you need to create a database and a user. To do this, open the context menu, go to PhpMyAdmin and enter the login (root), without a password. Thus, you have entered the interface. Add a new user in the "Users" tab and enter data in the required fields, specify the login parameters, put all the checkboxes in "privileges".

Now in the root folder of the engine, find the code of the file "wp-config-sample.php" and enter the database information in the corresponding lines. The new saved file is given a name like "wp-config.php". Next, to install the CMS, enter the name of the local domain (newsite) in the search engine. The installation script will appear, all that remains is to enter and confirm the necessary data. Now you can use the link "newsite/wp-login.php" to enter the console.

3. Downloading themes and plugins .

To ensure that HTML transfer to WordPress goes smoothly, you need to install and configure plugins right away. Certain modules may be needed here:

It happens that old forms are transferred incorrectly , so you can immediately (using the Contact Form 7 or Gravity Forms plugins) create new ones;

if SEO data on your old web platform is important to you , then they are moved using Yoast SEO or All in One SEO Pack. There, during the move, you will need to fill in the optimization parameters and mega-tags;

plugins like WPML and similar will help to maintain the use of multiple language versions (if this was the case on the old site);

CMS mainly load the server (not HTML) , so you will definitely need plugins for caching and optimizing media materials, in particular, WP Total Cache and Image Optimizer.