Adapting HTML to WP?

  • I’ve just installed WP on my blog/website, and spent most of the past 3 days trying to figure a few things out. My site is at https://www.dieiscast.com. Right now, it’s still directing to the old index.html, but as soon as I get the WP page where I want, I’ll switch it to index.php.

    My basic question is this: can anyone offer any suggestions on how to use my server-side includes (header and footer) in WP?

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  • I’d have to say edit the theme you’ve chosen so that the information in the header and footer is that of your old include info.

    You’ve got the standard (default) theme on there now, you might want to do a search for other themes you could implement and modify to get the same look and feel as your old HTML site.

    You can manage and edit themes right from your WP admin section… choose “presentation” and it will list the current themes you have available to you. If you find others you like, use an FTP program to upload them to “wp-content/themes” and then when you return to the admin, you will be able to select and edit any new themes you’ve added.

    Thread Starter dave702

    (@dave702)

    Thanks. I’m going to try working through this and post my progress here.

    To edit a theme, do I have to do anything special? I tried modifying the default theme, but it said “if this page was writable, you could edit it” or something like that.

    go into the theme folder, then the folder of the theme you are using.

    edit the following:
    header.php
    index.php
    sidebar.php
    footer.php

    what i did is make the site through html first.
    then pasted the code accordingly around the php code in the files above.

    Thread Starter dave702

    (@dave702)

    Things are working better, as you should be able to see here: https://www.dieiscast.com.

    I’m still having a few problems, such as getting RSS feeds set up, though. I’m going to search a few pertinent threads. Feel free to offer me any feedback on the site or my WP mechanics–I’m still getting the feel of it.

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