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Discussion on: What are your best and worst CMS migration stories?

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David E. Barrera

I have switched from WP to Jekyll and back.

From WP to Jekyll was rather simple, export using a plugin, Jekyll Export, and most of the needed files are there.

The other way around, not so much. Using the XML RSS feed and WP All Import (free) only allows for the 10 latest posts. Images, on the other hand, had to review post by post and link the images once again. And for the post 11 onwards, had to reopen each post and copy-paste as a a new post with a past date...

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Bryan Robinson

I did WP to Jekyll back in the day. When I did it, Jekyll Export failed for me. It still wasn't too bad to go copy/paste the content of most of the blog posts, since Markdown respects line breaks as paragraphs (and I only had a dozen blog posts at the time).

Even further "back in the day" I did Moveable Type to WordPress and that went super smooth with the original WP importer.