I am migrating a three-year-old news site from a non-WordPress proprietary platform. All existing articles/posts must continue to be accessible using the same URL.
I am of advanced technical skill. I have all of the data exported from the old site into an SQL file.
What I don’t have is savvy about how elements of the WP database taxonomy operate — what parts of wp_posts and wp_postmeta interoperate to produce complete posts including header images etc.
What I’m looking for at this point is either:
1) pointers to useful docs that will go into detail about what’s what in WP’s database structure so I can do my own manual database translation
or 2) suggestions of any automation/tools that might help.
Thank you for your time and assistance! 🙂
Todd
Hello Todd,
Since your request is to implement your older posts from a different platform into wordpress, I think the WP forums should be the ones to make your request on. The theme has no such option and this cannot be done from the theme files as well.
maybe a few of these online resourcess will help:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/migrate-existing-website-to-wordpress/
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/move-any-site-to-wordpress/
https://webdevstudios.com/2015/02/19/10-things-i-learned-migrating-websites-to-wordpress/
Thank you!
