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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