The talk will cover experiences learned over the course of several large data migrations into WordPress. We focus on:
- Single site to multisite, some shortcuts and some of the pitfalls
- Exporting large amounts of content (1 milltion+ posts) from any CMS.
- Migrating the content into WordPress and how to handle the above posts in less than 2 hours.
- Handling content deltas.
- Moving assets to S3.
- Some WP CLI scripting tips and the same for shell scripts.
- Handling redirects.
- Updating post content to handle changed asset paths.
- Validating migration success.
- WP-Config tips to speed up the jobs.
- When your Macbook Pro is the BEST option for migrations, and when it isn’t.
- How to handle the migration process and timeframe with another engineering team / the client / the hosting provider.
