Python Script for migrating from Wordpress to Hugo
Here’s a simple script that I wrote in python for helping to migrate from a wordpress blog to a static hugo site.
- It uses the jinja, slugify, and mysql.connector libraries.
- It connects directly to the Wordpress database and extracts the compiled HTML from Wordpress
- For simplicity, it does not handle tags
from dataclasses import dataclass
from datetime import datetime
import mysql.connector
from jinja2 import Template
from slugify import slugify
@dataclass
class Post:
date:datetime
title:str
content:str
filename:str
posts = []
try:
conn = mysql.connector.connect(
host='localhost',
port=3306,
database='wordpress',
user='wp_admin',
password='$YOUR_DB_PASSWORD'
)
cursor = conn.cursor()
query = """
select post_date, post_title, post_content from $YOUR_POSTS_TABLE
where post_type = 'post'
order by post_date
"""
cursor.execute(query)
rows = cursor.fetchall()
for row in rows:
posts.append(Post(row[0], row[1], row[2], slugify(row[1])))
template = Template("""+++
title = "{{title}}"
date = {{date}}
draft = false
tags = ['']
+++
{{content}}
""")
for post in posts:
path = f"import/{post.date.year}-{post.filename}.md"
with open(path, "w") as f:
f.write(
template.render(
title=post.title,
date=post.date.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z'),
content=post.content
)
)
print([post.filename for post in posts])
except mysql.connector.Error as e:
print(e)
finally:
cursor.close()
conn.close()
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