How to Transfer a Website into a Blog Using WordPress

1. Install the WordPress blogging software into the directory of your choice. WordPress blogging software can be installed side-by-side in the root directory next to the existing website. The WordPress installation should not affect your existing website.
2. Format the WordPress blog to your liking. Find the right WordPress template to compliment your new blog format. Once you’ve downloaded and installed your template of choice your blog is ready to accept new posts.

3. Organize your website transference process. The best way to ensure that you’ve transferred every page on your website into the new blog format is to work from a list such as an up to date sitemap of your site. A site map will allow you to cross off the converted pages as you go along.
4. Copy and paste each web page as a new blog entry in your WordPress blog. The trick to copying and pasting your web pages into a blog post is maintaining the chronological integrity of the posts. If you have a very old site with many pages, it becomes tricky estimating the actual age of the web page.
5. Validate the blog. Once you have transferred all of the web pages from HTML pages into the new blogging format, it's best to validate your new blog to ensure that all links and images display correctly. W3C.org (see Resources) offers a great validating program that will validate your site’s links.
6. Redirect your old web pages to your blog. By using a 301 redirect, your web traffic automatically redirects to the new blog site. To ensure redirection to the appropriate blog page, it's recommended to do a redirect for each individual web page. This directs readers who access your site from search engine queries to the updated blog page.
7. Create a new site map. Once you instituted the redirect create a new site map and upload it to your web server.