Convert static site to wordpress

Hey all,

I have a project at work - I need to move a large site (hundreds of pages) from and old CMS which I know very little about, other than the fact that it uses ASP. There are multiple paths to individual pages, so a single rewrite rule will not work.

We need to also maintain link structure like this - http://hurolinan.com/resources/resource.asp?LocatorCode=273 - so that search results will see the new page (or be redirected to it).

I want wordpress to be in the root folder.

Is this at all possible?

 

The old link structure isn't very SEO friendly, moving to a new CMS is probably the best time for you to change it.

As for the actual move, you'll have to manually extract your pages from your old CMS and import them into your WordPress database. If the links to other pages are hardcoded into your other articles (not some sort of plugin), I suspect you'll have to either manually alter them to use new link structure or find a WordPress plugin (like Related Posts) that can do something similar.

 

I'm really not sure if you will be able to exactly match that structure.
You may want to look into two wordpress plugins advanced permalinks and redirection both were developed my the same person.

Best of luck

 

I think you should CMS not Blogging Software like WP, If you think they are hard to manage, you can take online tutorials..

 

that's right I agree I think you should stay in CMS it's better for such type of sites otherwise you have to play with database take the database from your old site then install a new WP and implement it you can google some tutorials for this particularly

good luck

 

Thanks for all the advice, we went with wordpress.

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