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11:26 am
January 26, 2012

Rick Anderson

Edmonds, WA

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posts 3156

John, you'll end up customizing Thesis so it looks like your old site and then cutting and pasting the content from the existing pages to the new pages. You'll also need to pay very close attention to page slugs so that you either mimic the existing site urls or you'll create 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages.

There is no "covert this site to WP" plugin. Sorry.

Rick Anderson – WordPress Instructor

11:30 am
January 26, 2012

John Cunningham

Phoenix Arizona

Jedi

posts 121

Sounds like it might be easier fo someone at my skill level to just start from scratch with Thesis. What do you think Rick?

John Cunningham

11:38 am
January 26, 2012

Rick Anderson

Edmonds, WA

Admin

posts 3156

I think you'll find that converting a site to WordPress and Thesis is easier than you think. Now that you have created your own from scratch.

Rick Anderson – WordPress Instructor

3:57 pm
January 26, 2012

John Cunningham

Phoenix Arizona

Jedi

posts 121

Is it something you would want to demo in a live session? wink If so, I know the perfect candidate. The website is http://www.BiltmoreEtc.com

John Cunningham

4:52 pm
January 26, 2012

Rick Anderson

Edmonds, WA

Admin

posts 3156

John, that's a great idea. I'd love to do it. Especially if it can wait a few weeks. It would be 3-4 weeks "Converting an HTML Site to Thesis". We'd put it on a development server, get it all together and then migrate it.

I think there would be a lot of interest in it and I'd be delighted to teach it based on your site.

Rick Anderson – WordPress Instructor

12:42 pm
February 5, 2012

John Cunningham

Phoenix Arizona

Jedi

posts 121

Ok Rick; I'm glad to hear you are game. Do you want to schedule this now? Give me a couple of good dates for you and I will pick one of the dates you suggest.

Take a look at the website: http://www.BiltmoreEtc.com and let me know if it is something u r confident we can tackle.

John Cunningham

12:04 pm
February 6, 2012

Rick Anderson

Edmonds, WA

Admin

posts 3156

It's definitely something we can do, I just need to find a place in the schedule for a 4 week class.

Rick Anderson – WordPress Instructor

3:43 pm
February 6, 2012

John Cunningham

Phoenix Arizona

Jedi

posts 121

No prob; I'll wait to hear from u.

John Cunningham

7:35 pm
February 6, 2012

Shari C

posts 37

I will be interested in these lessons too. I have a static dreamweaver website with a wordpress / thesis blog. I have toyed with the idea of converting it all to wordpress / thesis. It would be great to know exactly what it would entail if I do decide to make the switch.

Shari

9:45 am
February 8, 2012

John Cunningham

Phoenix Arizona

Jedi

posts 121

Hey Shari, I'll look forward to going through that with you.

John Cunningham