Transferring Data Between websites

  • Hi

    I hope this is the best place to post this as I am a newbie.

    I have currently being using Office 365 websites to provide my website but want to transfer the data from there to WordPress.

    Does anyone know of any easy way to transfer the data I have on my Office 365 website to WordPress.

    I have thought of copying & pasting the pages and even looked up web scraping software as another way of doing this but is there something easier.

    It is mainly text I would be looking at transferring and it isn’t in anything complicated just text on a page.

    Thanks so much for any advice you can offer

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  • How many pages of text o you have on the other site? Is there a lot of formatting on a page or mostly plain text?

    I’m not familiar with Office 365 websites. Are the pages entered using a page editor? Is there HTML available that you can copy? Do they have any page exports available?

    Hi wslade

    I have about 200+ pages to transfer across so it would take some time to just copy & paste. The pages are mostly plain text but there are obviously a lot of links so it would be nice to be able to transfer with the web links attached.

    I know you can’t just copy & paste page across as you can get some aberrant html codes coming across that were hidden on the page and isn’t good for wordpress.

    Office 365 uses a page editor and unfortunately they don’t have page exports as far as I know.

    It would be nice to have an automated process if possible.

    Thanks for any advice you can offer.

    Split personality jimbob or a 100 point promotion?

    For that many pages, it may well be worth your efforts to research a data transfer.

    Does Office 365 have the ability to dump to .csv? I know I asked that already but they are Microsoft! They must have made some provision for people such as you? Are they saying anything about how to get your content?

    If not, is the data stored on your own database? If yes, can you get to the tables?

    I know you said you were a WordPress newbie but if you have good Excel skills and already have or are willing to teach yourself about a database, transferring data is not highly technical. I’m in the middle of doing a 27,000 record transfer and it takes more patience than knowledge.

    If you don’t have those skill or the time to devote to learning it, you might want to post at jobs.www.ads-software.com for a freelancer. I’m not trying to push you off to a freelancer, I just want you to know you have options.

    Thanks wslade

    I don’t think I can dump it to .csv in office 365.
    Yes the data is on my own database I believe but not sure if I can extract it easily, maybe I can do an ftp transfer of the data to my computer and then paste the pages into wordpress. Save me opening 200+ pages & copying them. At least then just have to paste it into correct pages in wordpress. Wish I had started off in wordpress in the first place!

    I always worry about offer my data to a freelancer with open access to my site in case they take the data or put some code into the site etc as I have heard stories.

    I know I will have to do this one day and maybe now is the time as there are so many pages to transfer.

    Thanks for all your advice.

    Is your database Microsoft access or by some twist of fate mysql?

    Regardless, of its manufacture, you can dump a table or even the whole database to .csv. This will at least expose your content.

    I understand your feelings about freelance support.

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