emersonthis / migrate-wordpress-to-eleventy

Converts the XML export from WordPress into markdown files compatible with Eleventy

Migrate WordPress to Eleventy

Converts the XML export from WordPress into markdown files for Eleventy

Tested on WordPress 5.5.1

Installation

• Requires Node 14
• npm install

Usage

First, log into your WordPress site and use the native Export tool to export your posts only.

From the root of this project...

npm run start -- <path to exported XML file>

TODO

• Adds post title to front matter
• Adds post categories to front matter (as tags)
• Maps publication date to file name
• Converts post contents from HTML to markdown
• Does not migrate images
• Does not handle excerpts
• Does not handle permalinks
• Properly escape titles with double quotes in them?