Wordpress Import

[optikfluffel]

An import from an existing wordpress-blog would be great ;D

[tdreyno]

This project may be helpful: https://github.com/davidwinter/wordpress-to-jekyll

Any markdown generated that works with jekyll should work with Middleman.

[bhollis]

I've tried out wordpress-to-jekyll but I had to modify it a bit to populate frontmatter with the correct info and output files in the right directory structure, as well as to ignore non-published posts. That script is also pretty primitive - it dumps the raw HTML without converting to Markdown, though for my purposes I don't really care what format old posts are in as long as they still display correctly.

If there were a nice way for Middleman extensions to contribute Thor actions to the main middleman executable I'd be willing to write a quick wordpress importer command in Ruby. Failing that, I might just write a standalone one. What do you think?

[tdreyno]

Excellent idea regarding expanding the middleman executable. Shouldn't be hard, though the whole CLI needs a refactor badly.

I'll make a ticket.

[bhollis]

Jekyll now has its own migrators that should produce middleman-compatible posts: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/tree/master/lib/jekyll/migrators

There's also this python thing that looks hard to run: https://github.com/thomasf/exitwp

I wonder whether it's worth having our own importer - it'd basically be a duplicate of Jekyll's. Perhaps just instructions on how to use their importer to create the posts?

[tdreyno]

Maybe we can wrap their migrators with a middleman-migrator extension which provides a CLI?

[cisano-arelia]

I used exitwp to convert my Wordpress export to markdown. I had to postprocess URL's and some frontmatter.

[karlfreeman]

Looks like some progress has been made by @salmansqadeer with wordpress-to-middleman :+1:

[tdreyno]

Wonderful @salamansqadeer! When it's stable, we can work to make it into a build-in template or extension.

[salmansqadeer]

Thanks guys! Glad to see that you find it useful. I have currently made it as stable as I think I will be able to get it in the near term. The translation from HTML to markdown is a little bit broken, but I fear that is more the fault of the html2md gem that Im using as opposed to any details in my actual code. I'll look into finding a better gem / writing my own html to markdown converter down the line to make sure this is seamless.

I also need to add support for downloading images and saving them in the right folder structure, but I would be happy to get some advice on how best to implement that as it may be a bit beyond my skill set.

Cheers!

[karlfreeman]

Just stumbled on the ruby-wpdb gem. Looks like it might help.

[mdb]

Inspired by @salmansqadeer's initial work, I built upon wordpress-to-middleman to create a wp2middleman gem. The gem creates a wp2mm command line utility that migrates the posts contained in a Wordpress XML export file to middleman-style markdown files.

This is just a rough first pass; I haven't yet released it to Rubygems. Please let me know if you have any feedback or further ideas. Hopefully it's relevant in some capacity to this issue.

Thanks!

[tdreyno]

:+1:

[karlfreeman]

@bhollis Thoughts on closing this? Looks like there are now a few options for doing this which weren't available 2 years ago...

@mdb Another :+1: from me :smile:

[tdreyno]

Honestly, I'd really love if we could pick a solution and either move it into core or depend on the gem. Then we'd add official docs for it.

[iwarner]

Seems these have not been kept up to date though and the documentation is now out of sync for these - its there any progress on an official one?