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Exporting posts out of Wordpress and into Gatsby!

Jess Lee on January 01, 2019

My friend Eric has been working on a project called Outreach For Taiwan for the last five years. It's been a serious labor of love where he travels...
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Tomek Buszewski

Hi Jess,

Gatsby supports WordPress' as a data source (gatsbyjs.org/packages/gatsby-sourc...), so there's no need to really export anything.

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Jess Lee

Oh, awesome! That's good to know. cc @phlashgbg

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Phil Ashby

Thanks for this Jess, I host a number of Wordpress sites (aka remote access services!) for friends, most of which only have occasional posts added, so I've been looking at ways to go static. This addresses one of the challenges nicely, moving existing content out; the other is getting a good update workflow for the semi-technical site admins who are used to Wordpress.. would be interested to hear more on that from anyone?

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Jacob Herrington (he/him)

Netlify seems like a magic bullet to me. That's probably because I haven't used it enough to find it's warts, but this seems like a great use case for it!

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rhymes

Hi Jess, does it mean that hugo's and gatsby's formats are compatible? Nice to know!

Cool that you want to spread awareness of your heritage, that's a great thing :)

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Matt Bagni

You can feed gatsby md files for sure. Those can be manually written or written by a cms, such as netlify cms

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rhymes

Thanks!

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Max Ong Zong Bao

Awesome post I think there might be more blogs being converted from WordPress into Gatsby in the future due to the cost and maintenance of a blog.

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Smit Patadiya

Gatsby is awesome but you can also try frontity.org (WordPress + React)

Check out Twentynineteen porting in frontity at twentynineteen.frontity.org

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Habib ur Rehaman

is it now converted and running on gatsby ?