Folders / Replacing Old HTML files

  • driver49

    (@driver49)


    2 years ago

    The link I have provided is a page of flat HTML that I first created in… wait for it… 1998 – along with several dozen others like it that have lived on various servers around the web ever since!

    I am converting a TypePad blog to WP, and along with it wanting to upgrade those .html docs as WP ‘Pages’

    I have discovered much to my pleasant surprise that I can grab the text and images from the original .html doc and drop it into a WordPress Page. You can see the first attempt with this page:

    https://farnovision.com/wp/tfc-part04-html

    Yay for that.

    Now my challenge is getting the NEW WP Pages to effectively replace the old .html docs.

    The old docs live at https://farnovision.com/chronicles <- where an index.html file has a listing of all the other docs.

    Since those URLs are so old an have links to them around the web, it is my hope and desire that I can somehow get my new WP Page replacements to appear at a similar URL, i.e. direct the new Pages to live in that /chronicles subfolder.

    Is that even possible? Is there perhaps a plugin that would give me that kind of folder-specific control?

    Is there a script that might do that? I’ve got no chops for code. Strictly a WYSIWYG end-abuser here.

    As it is I don’t even know how/where to find the documents in my /wp folders. I imagine they don’t really ‘exist’, that they’re generated when a URL gets called for (is that right?)

    I hope I have conveyed what I’m trying to do here. If there is a better solution I’m open to it. But since I don’t have a decent HTML editor any more (anybody remember Dreamweaver?), generating new pages with WP seems like a good approach for now.

    Thanks,

    –PS

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter driver49

    (@driver49)

    I might have just answered my own question.

    It occurs to me that once a Page is generated, I can save it locally and then ftp it to replace the old .html files, like this:

    https://farnovision.com/chronicles/tfc-part04_22.html

    That is a WP-generated Page standing alone as an HTML doc in the same folder. I added the _22 to the file name, but once I remove that, the new file would take the place of the old one.

    That might not be an elegant solution but it’s not a whole lot more work than I expect via any other approach.

    –PS

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