Title: Data Liberation
Author: Steve Dufresne
Published: December 6, 2023
Last modified: December 14, 2024

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# 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](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/82).

## 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](https://w.org/data-liberation) make it much
more achievable.

[Learn more about Phase 1](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/77),
and read [the migration guides](https://wordpress.org/data-liberation/guides?output_format=md).

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.

[Learn more about Phase 2](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/78).

Ongoing

### **Phase 3: Liberating Data From Closed Platforms**

Phase 3 is a [browser extension](https://github.com/WordPress/try-wordpress/) 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.

[Learn more about Phase 3](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/79).

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](https://w.org/playground)
are just a few reasons to use it.

[Learn more about Phase 4](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/80).

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.

[Learn more about Phase 5](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation/discussions/81).

Future

![](https://wordpress.org/files/2023/10/image-5.png)

## 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](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C069AKUBPHB)
and participate in the [Data Liberation GitHub repository](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation).

As web hosts, agencies, and individual contributors – we can work together to make
Data Liberation a reality.

 * [Join the Slack community](https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C069AKUBPHB)
 * [Participate in the GitHub repository](https://github.com/WordPress/data-liberation)
 * [Migration guides](https://wordpress.org/data-liberation/guides?output_format=md)