Import and Export > Import from WordPress

In this guide we'll go through the import of content present in a WordPress site to a DatoCMS project.

Installation

Install the DatoCMS CLI:

npm install -g @datocms/cli@latest

And subsequently install the WordPress importer plugin:

$ datocms plugins:install @datocms/cli-plugin-wordpress

What you will need

To copy your WordPress content to DatoCMS, you will need the following information:

1. Your WordPress user name and password with admin privileges

2. Your WordPress site URL

3. Your DatoCMS full-access API token: first create a new project, then go to Project settings > API tokens, click on "Add a new API token", and choose or create a role with read-write permissions. You can select the default Admin role, or create a more granular one, depending on your needs.

Run the import

To import the posts and pages of your WordPress project into DatoCMS, run the following in the console:

$ datocms wordpress:import \
          --ignore-errors \
          --wp-url <YOUR_WP_PROJECT_URL> \
          --wp-username <YOUR_WP_USERNAME> \
          --wp-password <YOUR_WP_PASSWORD> \
          --api-token <YOUR_DATOCMS_API_TOKEN>

That's it! The importer will create the standard Wordpress models: articles, pages, authors, categories and tags. All the Wordpress media files will be uploaded to your DatoCMS project in the media gallery as well. Hurray!

Known limitations

• Our importer only copies pages and posts: custom post types won't be imported;

• There are many different plugins to manage localizations in WordPress-land. For now, if you have a multi-lingual website, we’ll currently only import the content created for the main language.

• Same thing goes for SEO, sliders and other web elements managed by plugins. They won’t be imported.