Hello all, I want to export/import all of the posts from an old WordPress site to the new one we’ve built. However, the previous user used their outdated builder to create each post, rather than what I’m used to seeing which is just writing the posts with the basic built-in WordPress block editor.
We have moved away from their outdated builder to a more reputable one, is there any way to migrate these posts or did they effectively make their blog impossible to migrate to a new site since they require the old builder?
Again, I’ve never even seen anyone use a builder on posts before, usually I see a builder used to design a general template or two for Single Posts, but then the articles are simply written in the Block Builder… So this is new to me..
Thanks for the help & insight everyone <3
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You need to recreate them. How many posts are there?
You’re going to have to weigh the time needed to manually cut and paste the content into new blog posts, manually, or program your way to an import script of your own – depending on your skill level.
WP All Import is a great plugin for importing all sorts of fucked up data, but a key element of that is that it gives you the ability to write your own functions to parse the data and tease out exactly the content you want. But if you aren’t a seasoned programmer it may not be possible.
You can write a python script that will do this for you.
The fastest thing you can do is leverage AI. Export the data to a large sheet, set parameters with an AI tool to reformat content for normal WP compatibility. This will include setting AI parameters to strip or reformat old builder shortcodes and syntaxes, reformat into succinct sentences if this destructs content, and maybe even implement replacements for things like headings, text bodies, lists, etc. then have it proofread to ensure everything still makes sense while maintaining the content best it can verbatim.
Hell, you can ask ChatGPT to find other AI tools that can handle a large datasheet for this purpose. This is the best thing I can think of without programming or manually editing each and every post/page, or using tedious search and replace methods which in essence would still be a fairly manual process.
To summarize:
– Export Data.
– Mess around with a couple entries to train AI and set the needed parameters.
– Process the entire data with your trained AI model to make it compatible to WP’s standards.
– Import it.
Modern problems require modern solutions. Whatever this will cost you, guaranteed will be worth this one time task and can even give you some markup profit if you’re selling this solution to a client. They’ll probably be amazed at how quickly you’ve processed this if they understand the effort this would have taken traditionally.