WordPressPostSource.md

WordPress Post Source

The UXDM WordPress post source allows you to source post data and post meta data from a WordPress database.

Creating

To create a new WordPress post source, you must provide it with a PDO object that points towards the WordPress database.

The following example creates a new WordPress post object for a wordpress database on the localhost with username root and password password123. It then creates a WordPress post source object, using the newly created PDO object.

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=wordpress;host=127.0.0.1', 'root', 'password123');
$wordPressPostSource = new WordPressPostSource($pdo);

If you wish, you can also change the table prefix, as shown below. If not changed, it defaults to wp_.

$wordPressPostSource->setTablePrefix('wp2_');

Assigning to migrator

To use the WordPress post source as part of a UXDM migration, you must assign it to the migrator. This process is the same for most sources.

$migrator = new Migrator;
$migrator->setSource($wordPressPostSource);

Using a custom post type

By default the WordPress post source will only retrieve posts of type post. If you wish, you can retrieve a different post type, such as page or product. To do so, just specify the custom post type as the second parameter when constructing the WordPress post source.

See the snippet below.

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=wordpress;host=127.0.0.1', 'root', 'password123');
$wordPressPostSource = new WordPressPostSource($pdo, 'product');