Export content using the WordPress JSON API, and generate a zip file you can import into a Ghost installation.

To install the CLI, which is required for the Usage commands below:

npm install --global @tryghost/migrate

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-wp-api --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-wp-api

To run an absolute basic WordPress migration, the required command is this:

migrate wp-api --url https://example.com

It's possible to pass more options, in order to achieve a better migration file for Ghost:

• --url (required)
  • Path to a WordPress site
  • string - default: false
• -V --verbose
  • Show verbose output
  • bool - default: false
• --zip
  • Create a zip file
  • bool - default: true
• --onlyURLs
  • Path to a CSV file of post URLs that will be the only migrated posts
  • string - default: null
• -s --scrape
  • Configure scraping tasks
  • string - default: all
  • Choices: all, img, web, media, files, none
• --sizeLimit
  • number - default: false
  • Media files larger than this size (defined in MB [i.e. 5]) will be flagged as oversize
• -I --info
  • bool - default: false
  • Show initalisation info only
• -b --batch
  • number - default: 0
  • Batch number to run (defaults to running all)
• -l --limit
  • number - default: 15
  • Number of items fetched in a batch i.e. batch size
• -a --auth
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a user and password to authenticate the WordPress API (:)
• -u --users
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a JSON file with users. Contents should be a JSON array of objects that match the format returned by the Wordpress API, including the following keys: "id", "slug", "name", "description", "email" and "url".
• --posts**
  • boolean - default: true
  • Import posts
• --pages**
  • boolean - default: true
  • Import pages
• --tags
  • boolean - default: true
  • Set to false if you don't want to import WordPress tags, only categories
• --addTag
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a tag slug which should be added to every post in this migration
• --featureImage
  • Change which value is used as the feature image
  • string - default: featuredmedia
  • Choices: featuredmedia, og:image, none
• --excerpt
  • bool - default: true
  • Use the excerpt value from WordPress API
• --excerptSelector
  • string - default: null
  • Pass in a valid selector to grab a custom excerpt from the post content, e. g. h2.excerpt
• --datedPermalinks
  • Set the dated permalink structure. /*/ matches any prefix, such as /articles/2018/05/ or /blog-posts/2018/05/
  • string - default: none
  • Choices: none, '/yyyy/mm/', '/yyyy/mm/dd/', '/*/yyyy/mm/', '/*/yyyy/mm/dd/'
  • NOTE: When using /*/, this is only to match existing links. Fixed links will not contain this.
• --postsBefore
  • Only migrate posts before and including a given date e.g. 'March 20 2018'
  • string - default: null
• --postsAfter
  • Only migrate posts after and including a given date e.g. 'August 16 2023'
  • string - default: null
• --cpt
  • A comma-separated list of custom post type slugs e.g. resources,newsletters
  • array - default: null
• --fallBackHTMLCard
  • Fall back to convert to HTMLCard, if standard Mobiledoc convert fails
  • bool - default: true
• --removeSelectors
  • Pass in a string of CSS selectors for elements that will be removed, e.g. '.ads, script[src*="adnetwork.com"]'
  • string - default: null
• --trustSelfSignedCert
  • Trust self-signed certificates (such as for local installs)
  • bool - default: false
• --cache
  • Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
  • bool - default: true

A more realistic command for a WordPress migration looks like this:

migrate wp-api --url https://example.com --auth person:pa55w0rd --addTag 'From old site' --limit 10 --batch 5

This will fetch the newest 50 posts, in 5 batches of 10, collect real author data including email addresses), and add the tag 'From old site'.

migrate wp-api --url https://example.com --scrape img web

This will fetch all posts, and only scrape image & web meta data

migrate wp-api --url https://example.com --onlyURLs /path/to/urls.csv

The CSV should look like this:

url
https://example.com/2023/03/02/my-article
https://example.com/2023/03/01/another-article

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.

1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

To run a local development copy, cd into this directory, and use yarn dev instead of migrate like so:

yarn dev wp-api <url>

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests

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