I'm after some advice on what the best course of action would be for my website. I have a security Directory website and have so far been manually inputting company requests into the database. I've been trying to learn php so I could try and create my own CMS so that the requests would be auto injected and then i just approve them like how WordPress works. The problem is that the rate of companies I'm getting through, coupled with other things like work etc means I can't learn it fast enough and as such it is now becoming a right ball ache to keep up.

 

Because of this I decided to install WordPress into a subdirectory to run the whole company directory and have it all set out the way I want it etc and am almost ready to turn it live and get rid of my old method. The problem is that my front page is still a static php page and the two parts of the site look very different. So here's my question: Should I put the whole website into WordPress, as most of it will be dynamic pages anyway or should I keep the static page as it is and try my best to get it looking like the WordPress theme (which is Socrates by the way)? If I transfer it all over to a WP site is it likely to affect my rankings at all (I've recently got to Page Rank 1 and am currently number 1 in Google)? This is my main concern to be honest as this site was initially devised as a way for me to learn webdesign/coding and I've worked bl00dy hard to get it to where it is today and I'm now starting to get some good, increasing user stats and it would be rather depressing to suddenly drop all of it!

 

Any ideas/suggestions or advice based on past experience would be gratefully appreciated.

 

Oh, the site homepage is http://www.uksecurity-directory.co.uk and the directory using WP is here: http://www.uksecurity-directory.co.uk/testingdirectory/

Thanks

Edited February 1, 201313 yr by MWP

if u are not well versed with wordpress i wud recommend u to learn wordpress thoroughly from here

 

and here

 

or u can hire someone to do the job for u

 

 

u can make home page static in wordpress like shown here not the way u thought

if u are not well versed with wordpress i wud recommend u to learn wordpress thoroughly from here

 

and here

 

or u can hire someone to do the job for u

 

 

u can make home page static in wordpress like shown here not the way u thought

Thanks for the input, I think maybe I didn't make myself clear though. I'm fine with WordPress and setting up a static page. I'm just worried that switching my entire site, bar a few pages, from a static site that uses php to show the entries over to full WP will affect my positioning on Google etc? I'm guessing from your response that it wouldn't be a problem in terms of ranking etc.

page ranking depends on ur site structure/ content etc

 

if u keep sitemap and content similar i dont see any reason for drop of page rank on google

 

and if u want to convert ur website convert full to wp no half measures

page ranking depends on ur site structure/ content etc

 

if u keep sitemap and content similar i dont see any reason for drop of page rank on google

 

and if u want to convert ur website convert full to wp no half measures

Yeah the content will be exactly the same, in fact it will actually increase my content as instead of each company only having a link each, they're now going to have their own dedicated advertisement page. My worry was that I've seen a few places say that because of the structure of some WordPress themes it can drop your rankings, but from what I've seen so far I'm guessing that has more to do with free templates than premium ones.

 

On a side note does yourself or anyone else know how I can remove the nofollow attribute from a text box. Basically I have some text boxes for people to copy code out of and place on their own website to link back to mine for a free entry on the directory. On my static site this wasn't a problem because it displayed exactly how I coded it but on the WP site it is automatically adding the nofollow attribute which is unnecessary as this is a link for someone else to use pointing back to my site. The only solution I can find is to turn of nofollow for the whole site, which I don't really want to do.

Consider other CMS frameworks - you may be just as well off with a lighter weight solution, such as wolfcms.

I would suggest Moving the site to Wordpress. As sash-oo7 said as long as everything stays similar to the way it was (page structure/content) there shouldn't be any trouble. Since Google now recommends a site load in under 5 seconds you can build a pretty lightweight theme for it. My current Wordpress theme framework is getting a 98/100 Yslow score so there shouldn't be an issue there.

Try Perch - very lighweight