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If someone wanted to tackle writing a Wordpress -> @BeaconCMS migrator that would be awesome#ElixrLang
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I was curious about how such a solution would look like ?
I am not familiar enough with WordPress ecosystem, do they export and import sites with default WordPress file exporter or some other plugin is the go to ?
Would our migrator ingest the WXR / xml and map it to existing users and functional components ? or is there some other way to do this?
How would it look like functionally (CLI tool, beacon live admin page, script ?)
It would definitely be a large undertaking, is there a way to eat this elephant one bite at a time ?
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MarcusRiemer
Just because this recently crossed my path: Wordpress has an ongoing effort to make import and export of its data as transferable as possible. I didn’t manage to find much of a specification in my ~2 minutes searching the web though. It seems that format wise an export via “WordPress eXtended RSS” (wxr) you mentioned still seems the current way to go.
Inkognito
Incase anyone views this !!
Approach I am taking
UX
→ have a custom page on beacon live admin for each site
→ the user can upload 3 files
Unresolved points
→ multi media migration
Technical details
→ use Beacon.LiveAdmin.PageBuilder for UI, this also simplifies life as we get access to live_upload
→ a Dynamic supervisor and registry with name being site name for maintaining state
→ SAXY for parsing of XMLs
→ Utilize Beacon.LiveAdmin.Client.Content to make changes to actual site
Other considerations
→ dropping input config file keep only mapping file less robust can still be “extended” for handling different versions/formats other CMS platforms
→ hardcode WXR quick to get up maintenance nightmare
Any solution should eventually be able to import/export to format of users choice
Any feedback and suggestions are welcome