WP Import

If you are looking for a way to import your content and data from WordPress to Statamic, head to the Official Importer project.

Note

Statamic WP Import can import simple content from your WP site in conjunction with a WordPress plugin.

Features

This addon will:

Create taxonomies and terms
Create pages
Create collections and entries

This addon will not:

Create blueprints and fieldsets based on your ACF (or other custom field plugin) setup
Create global sets and variables

All meta data that has been exported from Wordpress will be set as values on the entries. However, any meta data key prefixed with an underscore will be ignored. Also, inline images in post content will not be downloaded. See note about images below.

Events

The addon is using the builtin methods for creating and saving content. As such, the normal events are dispatched which you can hook into for additional work according to your setup. That means you can listen on the following events to customize the import:

Statamic\Events\CollectionCreated
Statamic\Events\CollectionSaved
Statamic\Events\EntrySaving
Statamic\Events\EntryCreated
Statamic\Events\EntrySaved
Statamic\Events\TaxonomySaved
Statamic\Events\TermSaved
Statamic\Events\AssetSaved
Statamic\Events\AssetUploaded

By the time you read this there might be others. Consult the documentation to learn more.

A note regarding images

Only the featured image will be downloaded. Multiple featured images, images added with ACF and other plugins, are not downloaded. Featured images will be downloaded to the "assets" container by default (change in config), into a folder called "{collection_handle}/{entry_slug}", and saved on a field on the entry called "featured_image".

You can use the events above to do your own downloading of images and what not. I have done this myself with great success 👍

How to Install

You can search for this addon in the Tools > Addons section of the Statamic control panel and click install, or run the following command from your project root:

composer require statamic-rad-pack/wp-import

How to Use

First of all, you must export your data using the Export to Statamic Wordpress Plugin. Check anything you wish to export, but have the notes above in mind.

Go to the Tools > WP Import section and upload the json file.

The summary will show you if anything was already found in your installation. If you choose to import it anyway, the content will be overwritten.

(De)Select anything you want and click "Import".

Done :)

Config

The content of the config file looks like this:

<?php
 
return [
 
    /*
     * Enable downloading of featured image. The default is 'true'.
     */
    'download_images' => true,
 
    /**
     * The name of the assets container where images should be downloaded.
     */
    'assets_container' => 'assets',
 
    /*
     * Whether to skip download of an image if it already exist. The default is 'false'.
     */
    'skip_existing_images' => false,
 
    /*
     * Enable image overwriting. When set to false, a new image are created with a timestamp suffix, if the image already exists. The default is 'false'.
     */
    'overwrite_images' => false,
 
    /*
     * Filter out meta data keys prefixed with '_'. The default is 'true'.
     */
    'exclude_underscore_data' => true,
 
];

You can publish it with the command:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=wp-import-config

Known issues

You might get timeout errors if you're importing large datasets and/or many images. In that case you might want to tweak the timeouts on your server or run the import locally.