I have recently started on a project that is a redesign of a static HTML website. The previous site was handmade in Dreamweaver, and I don’t think templates were used at all. The old site has quite a bit of content, and manually copying and pasting the text from each old page into a new WordPress post will be very time consuming.
My initial idea was to extract the HTML inside the main area, rinse, repeat… But the content isn’t enclosed in a unique div. So, I can’t just automate by pulling all the content between <div id="content"> and </div> for example. The pages also include images that I would need to transfer as well.
Is there a way I can automate, or at least improve, the migration from Static HTML to WordPress?
Edit: The old side does have some consistency in markup. Each article can be simplified as having the following layout:
<tr><td class="title">Article Title</td></tr>
<tr><td width="80%"> Article content, with various formatting HTML</td></tr>
Granted, there is some additional HTML in there, but I think it is arbitrary.
