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Hi Hi,

I just bought EE FL and am excited to be using it :cheese: . I’m going to start manually converting the WP theme to EE tomorrow but was wondering if someone already has a workflow or procedure or shortcuts. I know I can go to Cal State Google and find answers there but also would like to hear from WP converts.

I’m not looking to import any data btw although I saw DataGrab which potentially I can move my clients to EE with ease.

Thanks in advance 😜

tags: wordpress to ee, conversion, wp theme conversion, wordpress conversion, building an ee site from wordpress theme

What I would do is view the individual pages on the live WP site and then view source, copy and paste the html into EE templates (splitting to different template groups/templates as needed)

Once that’s all done, then I’d create field groups, channels, upload directories and find any add-ons that would be necessary.

finally go through and replace the static html with the appropriate EE tags.

I think Sean has the best workflow, it’s not so much converting a theme to EE as it is building a site in EE with that design, if you get the difference.

@Sean: Great - I’ll give that a go

@Tony: I see and get the difference you’re mentioning; conversion (in this case) is a mental cognitive process and building is actualizing.

I built http://boyinks4adventure.com using the basic workflow Sean outlined.  It was a Woo WP theme, but I had to run it on EE…;)

@Boyink!: Yeah. the workflow is working out great. I’m learning EE tags, channels, custom fields, and includes. Really easy to do… so far. I should be done by this coming week.

I had a problem where my portfolio pieces are pretty big and some were small. In my WP site, I used a picture.jpg parameter (native feature of WP). EE did not have that option natively. I could’ve used the ImageSizer plugin to size them down but they did not have a “width=100%” solution either. So I created a custom field check box to add “width=100%” {portfolio_item} whenever an image needs that feature. Problem solved!

BTW, I saw your video lecture on quoting EE projects; it was very insightful. The guy who was doing the camera work made it hard to follow visually.

Oh - I’m going to buy your book since I tend to help out start ups and SMB’s vs large companies.

I think I threw them for a loop by using paper…;)