Migrating from WordPress to Pelican

WordPress XML to JSON

I wrote this tool to convert Wordpress XML dumps to JSON. The tool is opinionated and removes lots of data.

Pelican-import

A tool to convert WordPress .xml into .rst or .md files (ReStructuredText or MarkDown) is pelican-import.

I suggest checking it out, even if you do not plan to use Pelican as your static site generator.

Add date to post filenames

After using pelican-import I had about 150 .rst files and I decided to put the date in the filename, so I wrote this short bash script tool to do the renames:

files=`ls *.rst`

for file in $files:
  do
    the_date=`grep ':date:' "$file" | awk '{ print $2; }'`
    mv "$file" "$the_date-$file"
  done

Alter category to tags

category and tags have different meanings and assumptions between wordpress and pelican. As a result I decided to change all my categories to tags using this command:

sed -i'' -e 's/:category:/:tags:/g' *.rst

Alter attachment and image paths

fix paths to images / uploads to remove wp-content:

sed -i'' -e 's/\/wp-content//g' *.rst