Phase 2: Importing and Exporting Structured Data

[adamziel]

Phase 2 overview

Migrating content isn't just about copying files—it's about preserving the integrity of your work. Think of all the challenges: updating links, downloading related images, and ensuring nothing breaks when things go wrong. Phase 2 is designed to take the stress out of this process with powerful, automated tools that handle the heavy lifting. It also prioritizes content exporting. Imagine using WordPress to edit Markdown files and then saving them back in their original format. With these new tools, WordPress will be a two-way street for your structured data.

Phase 2 is about building resilient parsers, data transformers, and content importers that can gracefully recover from errors—even when handling 100GB of content encoded as WXR, Markdown, and epub, with half of the images missing. These tools are built with extensibility in mind, empowering plugin authors to customize the import process and support additional data formats and sources.

See the original announcement post for more details.

Project updates

See the tracking issue.

Goals

See the technical kickoff and goals.

Related discussions

• Let's talk about WXR! #56
• Solving rewriting site URLs in WordPress using the HTML API and URL parser #74

How to contribute?

• Join the discussion in #data-liberation on Making Slack.
• Share your use-case by starting a new discussion in this repository.
• Help review open PRs.
• Comment on any of the open issues and discussions.
• Would you like to contribute code?
  • Join #data-liberation on Making Slack and ask about areas where the most help is currently needed.
  • Do you have an idea? Great! You're welcome to propose a PR, just be sure to start a new data-liberation GitHub issue to discuss it first.