Most existing "convert website to WordPress" tutorials assume you're going to hand-write PHP templates, split your HTML into header.php, footer.php and index.php, and re-enqueue every stylesheet by hand. That workflow is fine if you enjoy porting code — for everyone else, it's a week of work for something that already exists as a fully rendered webpage in your browser.
Themify skips that entire step. It's a Chrome extension that captures the currently open page — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, fonts, and animations — and turns it into an installable WordPress theme (.zip) locally, in your browser. No servers, no accounts, no upload of your source code.
The old way vs the Themify way
The old way: save the HTML, download every asset, rewrite the head, split the templates into WordPress partials, register a stylesheet, hook up a functions file, and hope the animations still work. Realistic time: several days per site.
With Themify: open the page you want to convert, click the extension, click Generate theme, wait a few seconds. You get a .zip you can upload directly in WordPress. Realistic time: under a minute.
Step-by-step: convert a website to WordPress
1. Install the Themify Chrome extension
Buy a license on the homepage, then download the extension .zip from the confirmation page. Install it in Chrome via chrome://extensions → Load unpacked, or drag-and-drop the .zip. Paste your license key when prompted.
2. Open the page you want to convert
Navigate to the live webpage you want turned into a WordPress theme. This can be a page you built with any tool — plain HTML, a Lovable app, a Webflow project, a Figma prototype published as a live URL, or a site you built yourself.
3. Click "Generate theme"
Open the Themify popup and click the button. The extension will crawl the page inside your browser, resolve every asset, and build a WordPress theme locally.
4. Install the theme in WordPress
In your WordPress site, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, upload the .zip Themify just produced, activate it, and you're done. The page you converted is now your live WordPress theme.
What Themify preserves
- Full HTML structure and semantic markup
- All CSS, including custom properties and media queries
- Images, SVGs, favicons, and inline assets
- Web fonts (both self-hosted and third-party)
- CSS and JavaScript-driven animations, hover effects, and transitions
- Responsive breakpoints exactly as rendered
When Themify is the right tool
Themify is the fastest option when you already have a page rendered somewhere and you want it in WordPress. It's especially useful for converting a Lovable, Webflow, Framer, or Figma-preview site to WordPress, or for porting a plain HTML site into a WordPress theme without touching PHP.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I really convert any website to WordPress?
- Yes, as long as it renders in a Chrome browser. Themify captures the fully rendered DOM, CSS, images, fonts and animations exactly as your browser sees them, then packages that into a WordPress theme.
- Do I need to know PHP or WordPress internals?
- No. The output is a standard WordPress theme .zip you upload from Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme in wp-admin. There is nothing to configure by hand.
- Is it legal to convert a website to WordPress?
- You should only convert websites you own, or websites where you have the explicit permission of the owner. Copying a site you don't have rights to may violate copyright and the target site's terms of service.