Hi,

I made a website in Dreamweaver and would now like to transfer it over to wordpress just for the ease of it.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Any guides that can help me.. Am currently going through google but as of yet have not found the definitive guide..

thanks

You will have to be able to get into the actual code so you can replace static text with dynamic text generated from the wordpress database. There is no click and convert DW site to WP as far as I know.
Wordpress requires that your template is broken up into includes like header, sidebar, footer, etc. So there are several php files that make up a page. It isn't too hard to learn to theme though.

Here's a few tuts on custom themes for Wordpress:
http://css-tricks.com/designing-for-...ies-downloads/
http://net.tutsplus.com/site-builds/...-from-scratch/

Hi,

As far as I know there is no tool available which can converts dreamweaver generated sites in to the wordpress. But you can do it via this steps:

- Read the Codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Optional Preliminary Step – Merge the Stylesheets

Now, check with these steps:

1- Theme Directory
2. Rename your existing stylesheet as style.css and save it to your new Wordpress theme folder.
3. Add this code to the very top of your stylesheet and fill in the info accordingly.

/*
Theme Name:
Theme URI:
Description:
Author:Author URI:
Template:Version:General comments/License Statement if any.
*/

4. Create an HTML File from dreamweaver.
5 – Add Comment tags: I like to add comment tags in specific places to mark off the header, the footer and sidebar sections.
6. Link Modification
7. Add WP Template Tags
8. Create Your Includes
9. Rename Your Index.html file to Index.php
10. Copy function.php, search.php, comments.php and comments_popup.php from the Kubrick Theme directory and paste them into your dreamweaver / wordpress theme directory.
11. Follow this same process to create your single.php and whatever other template files you need like archive.php, page.php, category.php etc
12. Upload your theme directory to your wordpress install
13 – Widgetize the sidebar

thanks..

I already have a website online and going.. I chopped up my page into header, index, footer and sidebar..

Only this was my result..

http://www.leehughes.co.uk/wordpress/

Am pretty sure that the dropdown menu is like that because I haven't called it with PHP like I have done with the style.css..

I will have a look at the links you both sent and see if I can pick something up from there

Thanks again

***note dropdown menu fixed**

I just merged the css files together..

thanks @thewebhostingdi

I have decided to move my website to wordpress. To do this I needed to cut my page into different sections.. Header.php, index.php, sidebar.php and fotter.php.

I have done this and only have one problem so far, my sidebar.

On my original site the sidebar would go to the full length of the page and alter according to the amount of content of the page while the footer remained fixed to the bottom. On transferring the website over i noticed that the sidebar will move according to the text.

Original site www.leehughes.co.uk

New site http://www.leehughes.co.uk/wordpress/?page_id=8

I am using the same code, so am quite confused as to why this is happening!

any thoughts?

Instead of copying the code, you can copy the content and develop a new site. That will look better.

Originally Posted by leehughes

Hi,

I made a website in Dreamweaver and would now like to transfer it over to wordpress just for the ease of it.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Any guides that can help me.. Am currently going through google but as of yet have not found the definitive guide..

thanks

I think there no script or something that can migrate this automatically. You should do this manually.

Wordpress eases up the monitoring and posting is easy so you had the best decision on changing it.