Migrating content from WordPress to Sanity
11
Lessons
Simeon GriggsPrincipal Educator at Sanity
Knut MelværHead of Developer Community and Education
Track
Lessons in this course
Compose a powerful, reusable migration script to convert live data into Studio-ready structured content with references and assets. This module focuses on WordPress' REST API but could be adapted to any data source.
1: Introduction
1
Task
Unlock the power of scripting content migrations into Sanity, fix past platform mistakes, and confidently handle unique content structures. Import users, posts, pages, categories, tags, and assets, and convert HTML markup into Portable Text.
2: First steps
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Task
Harness the power of scripting content migrations into Sanity, fix past platform mistakes, and confidently handle unique content shapes and augmentations.
3: Preparing a Studio and schema types
10
Tasks
Configure the Sanity Studio schema to view your imported WordPress content in real-time.
4: Preparing your migration script
8
Tasks
Import WordPress content into Sanity in bulk using the CLI Migration tool, creating a script that queries the WordPress REST API and writes documents to Sanity.
5: Processing post types
4
Tasks
Create a dynamic migration script for WordPress post and pages types that accepts custom content transformation options to unlock reuse potential.
6: Creating complete documents
13
Tasks
Transform WordPress posts into more complete Sanity Studio documents with categories, authors, dates and more, using dedicated functions for each post type.
7: Uploading assets performantly
6
Tasks
So far the migration script has staged documents to be created sequentially, now we need to introduce asynchronous functions to upload assets, that has the potential to slow the import process down.
8: Converting HTML to Portable Text
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Tasks
Migrate HTML content from WordPress to Portable Text in Sanity, gaining presentation-agnostic block content and rich querying and filtering capabilities for your structured content.
9: Converting WordPress blocks to Portable Text
11
Tasks
Convert raw WordPress content into Portable Text, create custom schema types in Sanity Studio, and make authenticated requests to WordPress.
10: Restructuring content
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Take the opportunity to transform content from presentation-focused in WordPress to structured content in Sanity
11: Conclusion
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You now have all the skills to convert individual post types from WordPress' presentation-focused types to structured content in Sanity Studio.