About two months ago I asked what would be a good CMS for an existing website with database. I got different suggestions like Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. At that time it was more that I was orientating for future use. But about two weeks ago I took over a portfolio from an other developer. Most of the sites were in very poor shape and didn’t have a CMS and on the sites that had a CMS, the CMS was full with errors. In my message from 2 months ago @Pullo; said he would recommend WordPress with pro and cons. So at the beginning of this week I started to read about how to implement WP but everything is confusing me a lot. For example did I found this page. First of all at the beginning of the page is this message:
This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
what suggest to me that this plugin can only be used with WP templates. Can someone please advise me how to set up just a WP CMS for existing database driven websites where there is no need for creating new pages etc, but where clients should be able to update content add photos to a gallery etc…
It is a long story and maybe confusing story, but I couldn’t think of another way to describe it.
Setting up WordPress is so simple, even my mother could do it.
Ok, well maybe not, but nonetheless it is really simple.
You need to download the package, create a database, ammend a config file, then navigate to install.php (or whatever) in your browser.
Takes five minutes: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install
As for importing old content, that’s a bit trickier and depends largely on what format the current content is in.
As a first step, I recommend reading this: https://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content
Hi Pullo. I am reading the different articles right now and maybe I am stupid but for me they are not as easy as you suggests. Should I create a separate wordpress database next to the existing one? and In my case should I just upload the extracted content to a separate wp folder.
First thing to do is to back up your current site - databases and all.
Then (ideally) you create a new database and use it for your new WP install.
After that you port the existing content into the new database.
Finally you skin the WP install in the style of the site (also called creating a theme).
Thanks Pullo. I just found out that on my server WP is one of the included Applications which I can activate for each domain if needed, which allready incl a database so that makes things a bit easier. I will start with the things you suggested and will keep you posted