Hi Janet,

Don't think it's built in in the Dataprovider for wordpress. but how are the images embedded and I assume you have the images on disk so you can import those?

Best,

Richard

Thanks for the quick reply Richard.

Yes, the images in WordPress are currently in the /wp-content/Uploads folder and then there are sub folders for year/month. That's how WordPress organizes it's media library. Those could all be moved as-is or collapsed into to single a folder in the Umbraco root or uploaded into the Media section. But I'm not sure what the next step would be. Not sure how CMS Import would map those into the blog Post Image property.

Hi Janet,

I need to create "something" in the import provider that converts the tag to a normal media link or img tag then cmsimport does it automatically. Can you share how wordpress stores the image?

Thanks,

Richard

Here is an example of content taken from the HTML editor in WordPress. The code below is copied from the XML file exported from WordPress for this post. You can see the embedded image tag and the src attribute in below.

<content:encoded><![CDATA[ 
<strong><em>by Tina Bowers, MBA, CDM<a href="http://blog.methodisthealthsystem.org/2016/08/14/intentional-inclusion-and-diversity-embracing-our-differences-and-welcoming-all/tbowers_retouch1/" rel="attachment wp-att-3740"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3740" src="http://blog.methodisthealthsystem.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TBowers_retouch1-300x226.jpg" alt="TBowers_retouch1" width="300" height="226" /></a>
</em></strong><strong><em>Director, Learning and Development
</em></strong><strong><em>Methodist Health System</em></strong>...
]]</content:encoded>

This would be the content that is mapped to a property with a Rich Text Editor in Umbraco. CMS Import does import the content into the RTE on my blog docType in Umbraco. The only issue is that the path is still the WordPress path.

Meta data about media is stored in the database, but the image itself is stored in the file system in the /wp-content/uploads/ folder. No ID is assigned to the media item. The file name is whatever it was at upload time. I suspect WordPress just stores the path to the image in the database. WordPress creates the /year/month/ folders at upload time. Every instance I’ve seen of WordPress has this same folder structure for media items. /wp-content/uploads/year/month/filename

With WordPress I guess there are a few scenarios:

1. WordPress Image is in separate media picker field - This should be a simple mapping from xml field to Umbraco media picker
2. WordPress Image is embedded in encoded content field - You could keep image in encoded content but update URL to the Umbraco media URL (good for when there are multiple embedded images) OR you could map the first image found in the encoded content to an Umbraco media picker property on the docType

It would be easy to just copy the whole /wp-content/uploads/ folder and all its subfolders to the root of my Umbraco site. Perhaps if that folder structure was maintained then it would preserve the pathing so that CMSImport could easily find the related images.

Let me know if that helps or if you need additional info. Thanks for taking a look at this.

HI Janet,

Thanks for the snippet. I assume you are using the PRO version of CMSImport? If so click on the plus sign and you see extra options for converting media. This imports the related media in the same format as above and converts the WP link to a media item link.

Hope this helps,

Richard

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