So... I made a silly mistake a few years back. I used my work email for a WordPress blog page I was using as an "archive" of documents. Basically copy/pasting each one as blog posts.

My life got turned upside down while being laid off in early 2019 and lost access to that old email account. I just realized this a year later and try to recover the account but obviously Word Press could care less. "Start a new one" They say.

SO... I'm back to square one with 288 documents I need to create an archive for. They are mixed in either MS Word or PDF.

I haven't figured out how to do this. I want to just upload everything to one site and let the title of the documents be automatically hyperlinked and ... VOILA... instant archiving.

Any suggestions. I read another posts where folks were saying to use a CMS system? I don't know what that is. I barely can keep up with the basics of Site Designer. So feel free to dumb down any suggestions you have. Thanks in advance for the brainstorm.

I get the impression that the purpose of the blog was to act as a way of quickly accessing the contents of a particular document, rather than as a way of backing up the contents of documents. In other words, it was a private searching facility.

SD certainly can be used for such private matters rather than for public websites. For example, I have a website created and maintained in SD, but that website is kept simply on my hard drive, and acts as an index of links to websites. That replaces any need for browser bookmarks, or the transfer of such bookmarks between different browsers: I simply make that website on my local hard drive the home page for each browser.

Whilst one could use SD to create a blog used in the way mentioned*, it doesn't seem to me the easiest way. I have hundreds of pdf and other documents, photographs etc. Although I keep them in a well-sorted folders etc., I find that accessing a particular file is usually quickest using a dedicated cataloguing program. I keep all such data on a hard-drive partition (separate from the one on which I have the operating system and programs installed), and let WinCatalog catalogue that whole partition automatically. I guess there are plenty of similar cataloguing programs.

Frank

* or put the files in the SD Resources box, and put links to them.

Or, if you are Windows user, there is OneDrive, Windows' cloud archive. It would be useful if you need access to your files from several places.
Mac users have a similar thing, iCloud.

Update: I was able to get access to my WordPress account again. I don't know how it happened but a password worked.

Ok... to address you all's comment so far. And thank you in advance...

Actually, the files are for public consumption. I want anyone to be able to go to the "archive" and search for old articles written.

Here is what is on my website: http://www.dozwm.net/archives.html

But the folks using the website, many are not really good at "search" and says opening the PDFs and searching for key words or names is "difficult".

So I created this: https://dozwm.wordpress.com/

But trying to copy/paste 288 articles is a bear. If I did one per day it would take me almost a year. ha ha

That's why I'm trying to figure out how to 'batch' upload these suckers somewhere they can be searchable.

1. I would put the 288 files in about six folders of some 50 files each, as too many files in one folder can cause difficulties.

2. I would put each of those folders in Resources.

3. I would create six text links, one to each folder

It will be found that clicking on any one of those folder links will lead to a list of links to the files in the folder.

Frank