Data Liberation
Your data, your move.
What is Data Liberation?
The Data Liberation project envisions a web where your data is truly yours, not locked in closed platforms. Through five development phases, WordPress will give you powerful tools to reclaim, manage, and move your content anywhere on the web—no hosting accounts needed.
Locked vs. Liberated Data
Many people don't realize what they are getting into when joining a website or web service. At first, it might be easy to get up and running. But from that point on, if you are in a non-open system, your data is locked inside the system, and it's hard to get out. Read more.
Roadmap
Phase 1: Migration Guides
Data Liberation kicked off with what’s available at hand: clear, practical guides. Migrating your site from platforms like Wix, Figma, or even static HTML can be challenging, but the step-by-step migration guides make it much more achievable.
Learn more about Phase 1, and read the migration guides.
Ongoing
Phase 2: Importing and Exporting Structured Data
Phase 2 solves the largest data migration problems: updating links, copying media, recovering from errors, and supporting for large sites. It is built for developers to extend and support any content format.
Ongoing
Phase 3: Liberating Data From Closed Platforms
Phase 3 is a browser extension that liberates your data from any website, including social media, closed page builders, and design tools like Figma. It's extendable by developers and can even double as a personal web scratchboard.
Started
Phase 4: Direct WordPress-to-WordPress Synchronization
Phase 4 enables keeping two WordPress sites in sync, letting you mirror your data with a few taps on your phone. Syncing your data between all your devices, backups, publishing your content, and cloning an existing WordPress site in Playground are just a few reasons to use it.
Future
Phase 5: Content Creation Powerhouse
WordPress will become your central content hub for everything from personal notes, to ebooks, to social posts—all stored locally and synced across your devices. Phase 5 is the final step in reclaiming your digital world.
Future
Get involved!
Have a workflow, tool, or some time to contribute? Your help is essential in making the web more open! Join the discussion in the #data-liberation on Making Slack and participate in the Data Liberation GitHub repository.
As web hosts, agencies, and individual contributors – we can work together to make Data Liberation a reality.