Recently I made the decision to change an old website over completely to WordPress. It had wordpress installed in a /blog directory and I wanted to move it into the main domain. I knew that it would be good for this old site that had been cobbled together with a combination of hand coding & Frontpage. It was badly in need of an update.
I asked around for some recommendations on how to do it and did some reading. I think the best resource that I came across was from the WordPress Codex on moving wordpress within your site. The other great resource was my computer savvy hubby that said “let’s just do it!”
All in all it went much better than I expected. I am still in the process of changing over some old pages to the new format. It is really important to remember to 301 redirect all the old pages to the new ones. Plus I need to have a new header & logo designed, pick out colors, you know make it pretty. For now though it is so much better than the old site and my traffic from the search engines is already increasing.
