E10 | Migrating from Wordpress to Contentful | Ben Greenberg

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. ******************************* Questions Asked ******************************* 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? ******************************* Reference Links ******************************* Contentful Schema Diff (https://www.npmjs.com/package/contentful-schema-diff) Ben Greenberg Email ([email protected])