I have created a HTML website and want to shift to wordpress. I have another theme so I will be copying my content to that theme. But I want to keep my HTML website alive till I am done with the shifting to wordpress. Is there any way I can install the wordpress database and install my theme and start my word in backend whereas the HTML still stays alive.
I am a beginner in this so please spare me for any errors.
Thank you.
Just install your WordPress site next to your HTML site in a subdirectory such as /mysite.
While you are working on the WordPress site, it would be found in https://example.com/mysite.
Then once you are ready to switch to the WordPress site, you can just change the site url to https://example.com in the WordPress settings. This will then run your WordPress site via that same URL 🙂
If you’ve not used local URL’s in your custom links, you will have to update these manually when you change the WordPress Site URL.
After you have changed your URL to the root URL, it is best to scan the site and database to make sure no old URL were left unchanged. There are many good plugins and scripts that can do that. Velvet Blues Update URLs is one I use when transferring sites to new domains or changing from HTTPS.
