WordPress to NixMash Blog Engine Migrator

Migrates the posts, categories and tags of a WordPress blog to a destination MySQL database with the NixMash Blog Engine schema. The WordPress to NixMash Blog Migrator was built in Spring Boot. It also uses Kamran Zafar's excellent Spring WordPress WP-API Client to migrate rendered WP Post content.

• NixMash Blog Engine
• NixMash Spring Repository
• Spring WordPress WP-API Client

Be sure to read the Project Wiki for configuration and setup information.

Project Status

This application, the WordPress to NixMash Blog Migrator is complete. The NixMash Blog Engine is online and can be viewed at NixMash. The source code of the NixMash Blog Engine is found in here.

Installation Overview

• MySQL setup scripts located in /install/mysql/. Run setup.sql in your empty destination MySQL database, and wpsetup.sql in WordPress database to create four utility SQL Views.
• Update application.properties in both /test/resources and /main/resources for 1) blogger username, 2) WordPress API blog Url, 3) WordPress Origination datasource and 4) NixMash Blog Destination datasource

Running the Application

You can either run the migrator inside of your IDE or use the SpringBoot Gradle Plugin to create an Executable JAR.

PROJECT_ROOT> $ gradle clean bootRepackage
JAR_LOCATION> $ java -jar wpspring-exec.jar

You can run the migrator in your IDE Terminal View with the Spring Gradle Plugin bootRun task

PROJECT_ROOT> $ gradle bootRun

You can also perform a complete migration within your IntelliJ, Eclipse or NetBeans IDE.

Output

The Output of the application is a MySQL database containing all of your WordPress Blog posts, categories and tags. A new NixMash Blog user account is created with the data you provided in application.properties with a default password of "password."

This is what a successful execution of the WP Migrator application looks like.