I am copying all contents of an HTML website into Wordpress, but I only want Wordpress to load when everything is ready -- until that time, I want my regular (static) website to load instead. Can someone suggest how I might do this? Basically I want to create the new pages in Wordpress and THEN tell the server to use Wordpress from that point on. This is to avoid downtime. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Many thanks!
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Just upload the html pages. index.html will override the index.php, then when you're ready just delete index.html.
If you have a site in place already, as long as your main page is index.html currently, you should just be able to install/design with WordPress over it, and just remove the other files once you are done (after taking a backup, of course). Let me know if you need more details about what I mean. Good luck!