WordPress to Astro

This is a script that I wrote to convert the XML exported from WordPress into a new copy of the web site, running on Astro.

I've only used it to convert a blog site to Astro, so the focus is on:

• converting the text of posts exported from WordPress into Markdown files in an Astro site, and
• downloading any images used within those posts, preparing them for use in Astro

Install

You'll need Python 3.10 or above installed. Then you can get the script running by entering the following commands:

python3 -m venv .venv      # creates a virtual environment
source .venv/bin/activate  # enables the virtual environment

Now we can install our dependencies:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install pip-tools
pip-sync requirements.txt dev-requirements.txt