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Re:How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite by Mz on Monday April 08, 2013 @04:06PM (#5514183)
This was great. I don't really code but I have been trying to migrate handcoded websites to Wordpress since dinosaurs ruled the earth. I still haven't figured out what I need to do to pull that off satisfactorily. Copying pages requires me to then strip out html. I feel like I have never wrapped my brain around getting the new navigation to really work even though navigation problems (with an overly long and growing list of pages) was one reason for the migration.

I am wondering what sorts of info I need to go looking for to get this finished. I have thought about it before, contemplated asking around, and realized I didn't even really know what questions I needed to ask.

I also found this, which struck me as helpful but not quite what I wanted to read about: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121226171356-6...

Re:How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite by johnbellone on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @06:53AM (#5517279)
I've always just dumped the Wordpress database using the export tool. After I have the data I rewrote the template.

Most of the time the Wordpress template is so wonky that its better to just rewrite it (especially if you're migrating away from Wordpress in the first place).

Re:How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite by Mz on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @09:45AM (#5517976)
No, migrating to WordPress. But thanks for replying.