WordPress blogs migration with Sitecore Data Exchange Framework (DEF)
A couple of months ago I gave a talk for the Sitecore User Group Ecuador . As part of the talk I presented a POC (it's actually more than just a POC), which consisted in migrating existing WordPress blogs into a Sitecore instance. Throughout this post I will explain what I did to achieve this using DEF. However, I won't delve into the intrinsic details of how DEF works since there are plenty of resources in the internet. At the end of the post you will find a link to Github with the code. DEF uses a set of items (endpoints, pipeline steps, pipeline batches, etc) to integrate with other systems. This POC is composed of: One Endpoint One Pipeline Batch One Pipeline Six Pipeline Steps Endpoint: An endpoint in DEF is an item that holds the configurations for an integration, in this case, the endpoint contains the URLs from where we are going to retrieve the posts/tags/categories: This endpoint item uses a custom template that inherits from the DEF "Base End