Moving web site from Word Press to Dreamweaver

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May 4, 2022
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I have a web site made in Word Press, and I want to move it to Dreamweaver and continue editing it, developing it, from Dreamweaver.

Can anyone advise the process how this is done.

Thanks

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Maintaining WordPress is nothing like using Dreamweaver. Apples & oranges. You can't have it both ways.

Before you make a decision like this, consult with the site owners and stakeholders. This could be devastating to their interests and end up costing them hundreds later when they realize the damage you've done.

WordPress is a dynamic site. It uses content stored in a MySQL database and PHP programming that drives the site's functionality. Moving to a static HTML site will remove the site's functionality. This would be like moving from digital to stone tablets. It won't make the site better. Why would you want to do that?

Learn how to use WordPress and the online dashboard to maintain the site as intended. You'll find a wealth of documentation on WordPress.org.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Maintaining WordPress is nothing like using Dreamweaver. Apples & oranges. You can't have it both ways.

Before you make a decision like this, consult with the site owners and stakeholders. This could be devastating to their interests and end up costing them hundreds later when they realize the damage you've done.

WordPress is a dynamic site. It uses content stored in a MySQL database and PHP programming that drives the site's functionality. Moving to a static HTML site will remove the site's functionality. This would be like moving from digital to stone tablets. It won't make the site better. Why would you want to do that?

Learn how to use WordPress and the online dashboard to maintain the site as intended. You'll find a wealth of documentation on WordPress.org.

By @Nancy OShea

I too dont see any correlation between WP and Dreamweaver. I would have thought having built the thing in WP intially the website is in a far advanced state/stage than it can ever be in Dreamweaver...........sorry I'm just not getting this UNLESS you only want a very basic static website, maybe people do still build static websites these days. In that case WP is most probably not the complex monster you want to even go near.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Retrograde maneuvers like this usually come from amateurs who don't know how to work with anything except HTML in Dreamweaver. That's all they know. And they think (no matter how wrongly) that all websites are made the same way. But of course they're not.

Owing to how WP works, even if the OP gets WP files to open in Dreamweaver, they won't see anything they can work with except raw PHP code.

If the site owner just wants a plain static website that doesn't DO anything, fine. Start over fresh in Dreamweaver and build one. Forget about WordPress.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert