Migrating from a Static Website

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The task of manually migrating your website to WordPress can be a difficult one, but nonetheless, it is extremely important. Following are a couple of upsides to it:


You have greater control over your site’s content – you are aware of every post, page, category and tag created, mainly because you’re creating them manually.
It’s a solid learning experience – Migrating your site manually to WordPress Country Email List gives you a solid understanding of WordPress’ features and functions. You get a practical hands-on session of the entire process.
Building a Solid Migration Plan
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The way I see it, there are two ways to plan the migration process. Thinking from the current/source website’s perspective.Planning from WordPress’ standpoint.I’m not a fan of method (a) since it adds a lot of unnecessary overhead in the migration process. To keep things fluid, we’ll plan our migration process keeping the destination CMS in mind – i.e. WordPress.



WordPress fundamentally stores content in the form of posts and pages (and as custom post types for advanced users), and organizes them using categories and tags. Thus the goal of our content reorganization plan would be to structure it in terms of post and pages, and categorize them using tags and categories.