How can I migrate my old site to Wordpress?

[anon123]

Do I have to create a new page 1 at a time, copy and pasting the old site to wordpress? Any ideas of how I can speed up this process?

I'm going to use wordpress as my content management system, but my current site, that I built with HTML from scratch, has over 1,000 pages.

[ergophobe]

If you have a more or less set template on all pages, you should be able to write a script that will extract the essentials and dump it into the database. It would not necessarily be a complicated script if there's a good way to identify the structure (i.e. the meat of each page is inside a div with a certain id or is inside a given table cell or what have you).

If it's sort of a hodge-podge of this and that, then you'll need to do it manually.