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Help with converting my website to wordpress

Jan 15, 2014 3:38AM PST

I created my own website http://www.automartnv.com for my used car dealership. I used wix to create it but now regret it.

I have tons of time into the wix site and hate to start from scratch. Is there any way to convert or export my site and open it in wordpress and then edit it from there or do I have to start from scratch?

Thanks for any advice

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That's the downfall with using
Jan 15, 2014 12:40PM PST

a service like this. The data is most likely not exportable, and even if it was, probably not in a format WordPress could understand (without at least some converting).

That said, you may just shoot their tech support an email and ask, but if you are a non-paying customers, chances are slim.

~Sovereign

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Not suggestible
Jan 23, 2014 1:40PM PST

Converting a website from one format to another format is not easy and it will not be done completely. You may get errors resolving which takes time which is equal to creating a website. It is better to create a wordpress website directly as it comes with predefined options which you can use according to your requirement.

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Convert to html
Jan 23, 2014 2:32PM PST

I had a friend who had created a site on Trident, then lost his access to it. He asked me to transfer it. The easiest method at the time was to use IE and download each page to be saved as a full webpage. What that does is download the page as an html file and then also creates a folder and puts all the supporting material in such as images and javascript files. Eventually I went back and stripped out all the Trident specific items.

So, I took about 5 minutes and loaded your front page onto my site doing similar. I used Firefox to save the front page as a complete web page which saved the html file and a folder of same name with supporting items. I then shortened the html page name just for ease and then loaded both it and the supporting folder of files up to my server. Here's how it appears. Find someone who knows how to do this, some young computer buff you may be acquainted with, or a friend, and have them do the same for all your pages.

To paraphrase from Mission Impossible "This LasVegas webpage will self destruct in a few days". I mean the one on my site.

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Converting
Jan 27, 2014 2:47PM PST

You have nothing in your website rest of banner image and menu's.. ????