As WordPress becomes more and more popular more people and companies who are using something else will want to migrate their websites into WordPress. We will cover how to go about migrating data from various open source and proprietary web based applications into WordPress. It’s all about that database, no trouble when migrating from well architected db schemas. Sometimes you may have to import content from provided CSV, XML, JSON or HTML files/feeds/pages, ok no problemo. In some extreme cases you may not have access to any of the data and might have to page scrape an entire website into WordPress, sure why not.

There can be many technical challenges with migrating data into WordPress but nothing we can’t solve with some planning and some code. I will showcase some of the large scale WordPress migrations we have worked on at WebDevStudios for some big names like Microsoft, DrugFree.org and Newark NJ Public Schools. I’ll also show off a cool new framework we have been developing and using internally to help us with moving all the things to WordPress!