Using static pages on Wordpress site

Question

I built a few static pages in HTML while I was practicing some techniques. I would like to include those pages (and that hard work) in a word press site.

I have already created the WP page that hold the 6 items that I want to use as links to my work. I would like to link to another spot on my server or site that will then display the already-created sites and or pages. (some of my work is a complete site some of it is single-page).

• Can I even do this?
• Do I have to change all my already-created HTML files to PHP?
• Can I link to static HTML sites? (that would be ideal)
• I have tried copying and pasting the straight HTML from the pages into the text editor on the WP page, nothing happened.

Thanks for your help,

Josh

Answer 1

I would suggest making your own page template.

Start by moving the files into your WordPress theme folder, and giving them a name. Like page-foo.php, page-bar.php, so on.

Then on the top of these new files add PHP like the below, changing the Template Name to something that makes sense to you.

<?php
/*
    Template Name: Foo
*/
?>

Then place your code under this header.

Go into WordPress wp-admin, go to Pages and add a new page. Then on the right under the Page Attributes widget, select the Template name that corresponds with your content that you want to display for that page.