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WordPress to Gemini

(Or Gopher or your own Small-Web site)

Exported a whole 300+ posts WordPress site into Gopher

It didn't take too long thanks to the super-powers of GNU core utils.

1 - Used WordPress to Jekyll plugin. That generates a zip file with all your posts in a variant of markdown that includes some meta tags, I suspect for the Jekyll static (Web) site creator.
2 - Then uploaded the files, compressed as tar -I could have just uploaded the zip, but then I'd need to install something on my server and I couldn't see the point.
3 - Onces uncompressed in a new directory, I used the following command: ls > list.txt to turn the directory listing into a txt file.
4 - Finally, I used a bit of awk and some regular expressions to format the file names as a gopher directory. (That took a bit of searching on the Web for help as I'm a pretty basic user).

I'm sure a similar process could be used to export a Wordpress blog to Gemini.

Miguel out