Zach Adams Web Developer and Programmer

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Python Scraping for WordPress

April 5, 2015

Ofttimes when building for WordPress I find myself in a situation which requires me to move a ton of content from a clients old site to a new one. If I'm lucky (relatively speaking) it's built on another CMS such as Drupal or Joomla which I can export content from pretty easily, but most times it's a crappy site built using plain HTML and Microsoft Frontpage *shudder*, and it only has 4-5 pages of simple content. If I'm super lucky it has hundreds of pages rather than a few, that's when things get fun. If you've ever been the victim of the busy work known as "content-moving" fear no more, Python is here to save the day! Read More