I have a client looking to move from Umbraco to WordPress. They have 10 year worth of blogs on their Umbraco site, and I am looking for a way to export them as an XML file that can be uploaded to WordPress. I think this is the best way to do it, but if you have any other suggestions please let me know! There are so many blogs that copying and pasting them one by one isn't really ideal.
I believe you should create a job in order to export blog into a proper format for Wordpress. Considering that it has 10 years-worth of blog in there, this job should be automated and piped.
On the other hand, if you think that it unnecessary, as Dennis said, there are tools like usync but they export them as they are and mostly for the use of umbraco.
Thanks so much for your response, Mehmet! Are you able to link to any articles or explain yourself what this process would look like?
We had a developer working on the site, but they aren't incredibly responsive. I'm not a professional developer either, but I know the basics. Wondering if this is a process I would be able to handle/is pretty straightforward.
How many posts are there? You could create an RSS feed and Wordpress would just consume them. 10 years is a long time but depends on how active the editors were.
Hi Amir, thanks for your suggestion! I tried to do that, and maybe I am doing it wrong, but WordPress didn't like accepting the RSS file. It had an issue saying there was no author even tho there is. Any suggestions? What process would you take to get the RSS?
Also, I don't know the answer to this, but is it possible that when you import a feed into wordpress the author has to match up to a user or something?
Exporting 10 years worth of blogs as XML file
Hi All!
I have a client looking to move from Umbraco to WordPress. They have 10 year worth of blogs on their Umbraco site, and I am looking for a way to export them as an XML file that can be uploaded to WordPress. I think this is the best way to do it, but if you have any other suggestions please let me know! There are so many blogs that copying and pasting them one by one isn't really ideal.
Thanks!!
You could use uSync with ContentEdition. It will export everything to files =)
https://our.umbraco.com/packages/developer-tools/usync/ https://our.umbraco.com/packages/developer-tools/usynccontentedition/
Hi,
I believe you should create a job in order to export blog into a proper format for Wordpress. Considering that it has 10 years-worth of blog in there, this job should be automated and piped.
On the other hand, if you think that it unnecessary, as Dennis said, there are tools like usync but they export them as they are and mostly for the use of umbraco.
Thanks so much for your response, Mehmet! Are you able to link to any articles or explain yourself what this process would look like?
We had a developer working on the site, but they aren't incredibly responsive. I'm not a professional developer either, but I know the basics. Wondering if this is a process I would be able to handle/is pretty straightforward.
Thanks!!
How many posts are there? You could create an RSS feed and Wordpress would just consume them. 10 years is a long time but depends on how active the editors were.
Hi Amir, thanks for your suggestion! I tried to do that, and maybe I am doing it wrong, but WordPress didn't like accepting the RSS file. It had an issue saying there was no author even tho there is. Any suggestions? What process would you take to get the RSS?
Does your feed validate here? https://validator.w3.org/feed/
Also, I don't know the answer to this, but is it possible that when you import a feed into wordpress the author has to match up to a user or something?
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