Adding Files & Pages that are NOT WP

  • I have several older newsletters that are stand-alone HTML pages. I want them displayed on our WP website and to be indexed for SEO. Currently, they are in a folder structure by year at the root of public_html. 

    public_html
	o Newsletters
	   ?2022
		?Jan
		?Feb
	   ?2021
		?Jan
		?Feb

    Is there a better way/place to store these files so they are secure, available, and indexed?

    How do I ensure that the files within the Newsletter file structure are added to the sitemap and indexed by search engines without installing another plugin?

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  • If you are talking about 4 or so newsletter, rather than getting all technical and creating programs, then simply cut the body part out and add it as a html block to an appropriate post / page manually.

    Thread Starter abbottwp

    (@abbottwp)

    There are currently over 60 stand-alone HTML pages, and more will be added moving forward unless I find a better way of doing it.

    OK, if you are handy with code, the wordpress way would be to have a folder in wp-content/uploads/old-newletters and then your structure, then you would write code to read / display them inside WP structures.

    A less code intensive approach would be to use an import plugin although this wont be a walk in the park either as all the import plugins I know are looking for files in CSV or XML format so some pre-processing is required.

    Out of interest, are these old newletters ONLY in html, of do they also sit on some other newsletter system?

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Alan Fuller.
    Thread Starter abbottwp

    (@abbottwp)

    The newsletters are each a stand-alone HTML page. Currently in a shared folder in public_html on another WP site.

    Does that other website have a ‘structure’ that is predictable? Will that other site continue to exist? Could you some how display the other site pages within your WP site either by iframing or getting the html and processing.

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