strapi-blog-cms

This is a Strapi project customized to serve as a blog cms with similar content types and functionality as Wordpress

It includes

• content types needed for the blog
• permission types and necessary plugins
• config export-import automatically

How to use

Clone this repository then run yarn install

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in proper values

Afterward run yarn build and finally

config-sync import

Finally yarn build then yarn start to start your Strapi admin panel.

How to export-import all data

This project is intended for a minimalistic blog cms. It is using the default storage which is sqlite.

Copy .tmp folder to a backup folder then when you initialise the project elsewhere just replace the folder. All your users, content will be preserved this way.

Seeding test data

Adjust src/index.ts bootstrap method and uncomment the call to seedTestData

This will create an admin user and some data for you only for development purpose.

Test credentials:

admin@email.com

admin

Migrating Wordpress data

You can use dev/migarte-from-wordpress.ts file.

First make sure to specify in the .env file the following variables

WP_MYSQL_HOST=some-value
WP_MYSQL_USER=some-value
WP_MYSQL_PASSWORD=some-value
WP_MYSQL_DB=some-value

Then execute the exported function 1 time from the bootstrap or anywhere else.

The tool will fetch posts, categories, tags and insert them into correct Strapi auto-generated content types.

Please note that this will not migrate the custom pages and any plugins you have.

TODO

• migrate wp pages
• migrate authors
• consider plugins (feel free to make PRs here as well to improve)

Development

Start your Strapi application with autoReload enabled. Learn more

npm run develop
# or
yarn develop

Debugging

adjust tsconfig.json to have "sourceMap": true

Adjust your editor, for example IntelliJ to run yarn develop command in debug mode and set-up breakpoints.

Start Strapi server

Start your Strapi application with autoReload disabled. Learn more

after building with yarn build

npm run start
# or
yarn start