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Thank you for your reply. I am not sure how that would work. The problem occurs with any base font family I specify.

I should mention that the base font size does change in the dialog preview window, but not within the actual website pages.

If this is an issue relating to corruption of the theme, would it be simpler to backup my site and then reinstall it? I am not a gifted coder.

Because my WP version is up-to-date, am I correct in assuming there would be no point reinstalling that as well?

Thank you for all the relies so far. I think I now have the general idea on how best to proceed within my abilities.

One reason for moving the HTML site and domain to WP is so in the future I can work on the site within the better featured WP platform.

Excuse me if I have misunderstood, but you seem to be proposing the opposite, i.e. work in HTML and redirect from WP.

If I just apply the old domain name and content to a new WP site, is Google perhaps “smart” enough to see that it is essentially the same site? Maybe my concerns about ranking are trivial?

Yes, I was hoping for a less challenging non-coding solution. This is just a one-off exercise.

Maybe I will leave the HTML site as it is and insert a “visit our new website” link within the page header template. And/or redirect to the new domain through my web host’s control panel. Of course, neither satisfies my original aim of using the domain name for the new WP site.

Given the above “simple” solution, I would then need to address the duplication issue. However, I have heard conflicting opinions on whether or not duplicated content really affects ranking. Maybe someone here can clarify this point.

There seem to be a lot of technicalities associated with not only preventing loss of SE ranking but also moving the existing content to WP.

Would it be workable to register a new domain, build the new site there, and redirect all static HTML pages to that new website? I would then orphan the old site and publish all new content only to the WP one.

Questions. Upon visiting the old HTML, would the SE’s see the new content on the WP side and, going forward, factor this into the ranking of page names associated with my old HTML domain name? If so, could I remove all content from the HTML site to avoid being penalized for duplication? IOW just leave a shell for forwarding purposes?

Sloppy I am sure, but more in line with my limited coding abilities. I guess what I am looking for is the “easiest”, rather than most correct, functioning solution. At some future date, I could outsource a proper conversion.