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Kirkman14
Kirkman14

Reputation: 1686

How to convert Wordpress blog posts from Textile 2 to Markdown?

I switched from Movable Type to Wordpress about a year or two ago. But I have continued to write my posts using Textile 2 formatting (with the help of a WP plugin).

I've been impressed by the way Markdown has proliferated across the web; everywhere from StackOverflow to GitHub and beyond.

So, I'm toying with the idea of converting all my Textile 2-formatted blog posts to Markdown, and I wondered how I might go about doing that.

I saw on this StackOverflow question a suggestion to use Pandoc to convert between formats.

Could I use Pandoc to process an SQL export from Wordpress, and then re-import it to WP? What would be the pitfalls?

Or anyone have alternative suggestions on a way to do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 699

Answers (1)

Rachel Sanders
Rachel Sanders

Reputation: 5884

I've been playing around with the static blog generators Jekyll and Octopress, which use Markdown as an authoring format. People have written a few tools to export Wordpress to markdown:

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/blog-migrations

Caveat that I haven't used any of them, but hopefully they help get you started.

Upvotes: 1

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