wordpressXmlToJekyllMarkdown

Converts your wordpress Export XML to Jekyll-Friendly Markdown

Usage

The script expects the export from your wordpress site as "export.xml" in the same directory. It exports all posts into the directory "posts".

Each post gets exported into a markdown-file fit for import int Jekyll, the static site generator. The files are named "YEAR-MONTH-DAY-NAME.md" and have the usual Jekyll Header:

---
layout: post
title: $NAME
author: $AUTHOR
---
HERE COMES THE MARKDOWN CONVERTED CONTENT OF THE POST

Install

Download the script or clone the repo. Then

gem install nokogiri
gem install upmark

and then you can

ruby wordpressXmlToJekyllMarkdown.rb

Origin

The idea and code is based on http://www.ramblinglabs.com/blog/2012/02/migrating-your-blog-posts-to-markdown-with-upmark-and-nokogiri. I pasted the snippets together, added the necessary requires and extended it with minimal failur handling and a few more fields.