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E10 | Migrating from Wordpress to Contentful | Ben Greenberg


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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])
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