Title: Generic Import/Migration Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Generic Import/Migration Plugin

 *  [sycophant](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sycophant/)
 * (@sycophant)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/generic-importmigration-plugin/)
 * I’m looking at importing content from an old application (phpWebLog) to WP2… 
   I’ve been unable to find any script to do it, so I will write my own, but I started
   thinking, after looking through scripts for other migration paths – why can’t
   this be generic?
 * The process for migration from most applications to WordPress is… Find the table
   with the content, extract the relevant fields, modify them for WordPress, create
   new data for missing fields, insert into wp_post.
 * You need to choose which categories to use, and what to substitute for what, 
   but basically that’s the process for most imports, from common systems, or more
   obscure ones.
 * So I think it should be possible to make a plugin to import from many (most) 
   other known and unknown CMS systems.
 * You’d simply have to make an interface that allows the used to connect to a database/
   table and basically select which fields are what, and maybe create some simple
   regex rules for mashing data as necessary.
 * The structure could be saved in some way and then the plugin could support pre-
   defined formats for a number of more widely used applications.
 * Thoughts?
 * I might try to make something like this myself oneday, but at present I don’t
   have the time.

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