Importing a HTML website into WordPress

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  coachdo123 · Member · Oct 15, 2019 at 6:23 am

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  I have a website (HTML) and I would like to know whether it is possible to import the site into WordPress and still keep the same theme and style, content etc.
  Thanks.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Oct 15, 2019 at 9:27 am

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  Hi there!

  On WordPress.com you won’t be able to edit the site’s HTML or CSS files so it won’t be possible to import the whole site’s design like that.

  However, if your site is a self-hosted WordPress.org, you can have a look at these instructions on how to import it:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/coming-from-self-hosted/

  Let me know if you have any doubts regarding that.

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  coachdo123 · Member · Oct 21, 2019 at 7:33 pm

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  Can you help me to get to as close to my old site as possible on wordpress?

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Oct 21, 2019 at 8:10 pm

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  The only way to migrate content from a static HTML site over to WordPress.com is to manually copy and paste the content. Like @fresatomica mentioned, you will be unable to transfer the actual design over. What is the URL of the site you want to migrate over?

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  coachdo123 · Member · Oct 21, 2019 at 8:13 pm

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  The URL is http://www.hl24.co.za

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 21, 2019 at 9:28 pm

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  Yeah, that will definitely have to be copy/pasted over and re-built somewhat, we don’t have a way to import something like that.

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