E10 | Migrating from Wordpress to Contentful | Ben Greenberg

Headless { Creator Podcast }

In this episode, I chat all about migrating from Wordpress into Contentful with my guest Ben Greenberg, a former Lyft and AirBnB engineer who migrated his own website, GlowyStuff.com, from Wordpress into Contentful.

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Questions Asked

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• Tell us about your background.
  
• What kind of projects did you work on while at Lyft and AirBnB?
  
• What made you switch from backend development to frontend development?
  
• What's frontend tech stack do you work with?
  
• What kind of Javascript frameworks are you using on the front end?
  
• What's the difference between a traditional CMS and a headless CMS?
  
• Tell us about someo of the available Wordpress migration tools out there?
  
• What has been your biggest pain point in the migration from Wordpress to Contentful?
  
• Are you running the old site and new site concurrently?
  
• Are you merging content from the old site to the new one?
  
• Are you migrating any content models from Wordpress?
  
• Is building content models like building a DB schema?
  
• Tell us about your Wordpress techstack?
  
• What is your front end framework in your new site?
  
• Where are you hosting your site now?
  
• Why are you using the GraphQL API over the REST api of Contentful?
  
• Tell us about your Contentful architecture.
  
• Tell us about your taxonomies in Contentful that you had to create from Wordpress.
  
• Are you also migrating your tags from Wordpress?
  
• What was your content modeling process?
  
• Tell us the difference between Rich Text Fields in Wordpress vs. Contentful.
  
• Are your media assets stored in Contentful?
  
• How are you duplicating your Wordpress plugins functionality in Contentful?
  
• Will you be replacing Wordpress plugins with Contentful applications from the marketplace?
  
• Do you have a QA mirgration plan?
  
• What did Wordpress have that Contentful is missing?
  
• What would you have done differently in this migration from Wordpress to Contentful?
  
• How many content types do you have currently?
  
• Are you using contentful-migration tool?
  

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Reference Links

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• Contentful Schema Diff (https://www.npmjs.com/package/contentful-schema-diff)
  
• Ben Greenberg Email ([email protected])