There are many reasons to migrate your WordPress site to Wagtail. If you do make this choice, rest assured the migration doesn't need to be painf

WordPress to Wagtail migration kit

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There are many reasons to migrate your WordPress site to Wagtail. If you do make this choice, rest assured the migration doesn't need to be painful.

We are pleased to announce the release of a WordPress to Wagtail migration kit: Wagtail WordPress Import. It's installable from PyPI.

To get started, you need to download an XML export file from your WordPress admin. The kit generates the Wagtail site from this XML export. To be more specific about how the kit works:

This is a whistle-stop simplification of the process. Along the way, we also imported and matched author records, parsed dates, SEO metadata, and category tags, and logged the results for auditing. For more see the Import process page of the documentation.

Since WordPress sites lack a lot of standardisation, it would be hard to make a migration kit that covers every scenario out of the box. Instead, the kit has been developed and documented so that it's easy to extend.

If you're importing a site, expect to configure the mapping of WordPress content to Wagtail blocks, and write handlers for any custom shortcodes your site uses. You'll find documentation to help you on the project homepage. We also have a Slack channel where we're looking for feedback and hope to offer support to users.