WordPress to Jekyll Markdown

By Johanthan Lyman

This rather simple Ruby script pings the REST API on a self-hosted WordPress site, gets post data, and converts it into .md (markdown) files for use in Jekyll blogs.

I build this out of necessity since the Jekyll export plugin for WordPress hasn't worked in many months and I couldn't find any easy to use pre-built tools out on the interwebs.

The code is clunky, I'll admit, but it did what I needed it to do and it processed 252 posts in less than 10 seconds. Not bad for a couple hours work, if you ask me.

Requirements

• A WordPress.org installation
• The WP REST API plugin installed and active
• Bundler

Usage

• Run bundle install
• Open wpjekyll.rb and edit the three variables at the top of the file: wordpress_url, the_post_author, and the_post_category.

TODO

• Get categories dynamically via the API
• Get tags dynamically via the API
• Take limit argument
• Take URL argument
• Take Author Argument
• Get author dynamically via the API
• rspec tests
• Catch HTTP errors
• Verbosity argument
• MAJOR REFACTORING

LICENSE

This code is covered under the MIT License.