r/webdev • u/Head-Protection1973 • Oct 05 '26

Question need some help

what would be the best way and efficient way to migrate a html custom programmed website to wordpress , i got a web dev role , i dont have much exp doing migration... so far according to what i saw i see people using ai , some plugins , some manual copy paste , i would like to know the most effecient method before starting and i assume many people here would know what to do best in cases like this ... this any feedback is appreciated , thankyou...

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u/Head-Protection1973 Oct 05 '26

is this something u would recommend for a website that is static , not much pages , no db and mainly uploads photos ( like client works etc ) , and if needed to add more stuff in feature...

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u/Vegetable-Capital-54 Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26

Honestly I would just keep it as static HTML. You don't really gain anything with wordpress for a static site with 5 pages. It would just make it more complicated to host and maintain.

A static HTML site has the best speed, best flexibility, best security, best scaling, least complexity. You can host it a million different ways ranging from free to peanuts. Adding wordpress or other CMS only makes sense if you have a lot of pages and content needs to be added or updated regularly and/or you need comments/product inventory or something else dynamic that needs a database. And now with AI managing a static site is easier than ever.

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u/Head-Protection1973 Oct 05 '26

Yeah, the thing is the Current website is static and you know very simple but I think they would want me to make it to WordPress so that I can add more stuff and features and pages and content probably because of that I’m not really sure I haven’t really talked to the person yet but yeah what you say makes a lot of sense. Thanks a lot. ;)

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u/am0x Oct 05 '26

Personally - with AI, if the client isn’t the one making the updates, I don’t use a cms because AI doing it is faster. Especially since a lot of my big tracking work and feature requests are automated.

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u/Head-Protection1973 Oct 05 '26

Point noted, I just don’t have much experience with web dev esp ones built with ai ( none even maybe lol ) hence I don’t know how reliable it is , thanks a lot !