How to upload custom html to WordPress

Sushant Pawar

Senior Member

Mar 7, 2018

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• Oct 16, 2023

• #1

Hello, I have WordPress website on localhost using xampp. I want to use custom HTML file as my homepage. How to do it?

I tried searching in Google but I am not able find. Perhaps I am searching wrong thing.

 

solidguy_82

Banned - Multiple Rules Violations

Jul 14, 2016

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• Oct 16, 2023

• #2

Install file manager in WordPress plugins

 

Black Belt Spodermen

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Jan 18, 2016

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• Oct 16, 2023

• #3

you need to name it as index.html and make sure it is in the main directory.

 

meau

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Oct 16, 2023

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• Oct 16, 2023

• #4

You need to insert a HTML module into your main page.

Black Belt Spodermen said:

you need to name it as index.html and make sure it is in the main directory.

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This will not work and will ruin whole WP site.

 

Black Belt Spodermen

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Jan 18, 2016

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• Oct 16, 2023

• #5

meau said:

You need to insert a HTML module into your main page.


This will not work and will ruin whole WP site.

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Oh my bad. I did not read he is using WordPress.

 

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antho_rob

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Oct 26, 2023

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• Oct 31, 2023

• #6

First step to consider while creating a custom html is to create a HTML file then you can goon creating a theme and a custom page template