Josh Pollock

Ben Meredith

Jason Bahl

Headless mode sets up a redirect for all users trying to access the site. The only requests that are granted admission are ones that are either trying to access the REST API, the WP GraphQL API, or any logged-in user looking to access the headless install to edit or create posts.

Headless Mode

This tiny plugin works exactly as intended. 

Simple to set up and works great!

Once you take the head off of WordPress, nobody needs to see it. This plugin hides the front end by redirecting to the shiny static (etc) site.

mitchmac

The plugin creates zip files containing posts converted to Markdown. A WP-CLI command exists to handle exporting sites with a large amount of content.
<ul>
<li>Move WordPress content to Gatsby-friendly Markdown.</li>
<li>Customize the export! Remap and restructure exported fields.</li>
<li>CLI: Avoid PHP timeouts by using the command line with WP-CLI.</li>
<li>CLI: Export progress bar (great for large sites)!</li>
</ul>
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Reminder: always keep a backup of the WordPress database and files in case your export doesn’t work as expected!
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<h3>Working with Gatsby</h3>
If you’re just getting started with Gatsby, we recommend experimenting with a Markdown based Gatsby starter like <a href="https://github.com/tinacms/tina-starter-grande" rel="nofollow ugc">Tina Grande</a>. Installation is as easy as:
<pre><code>git clone https://github.com/tinacms/tina-starter-grande.git

cd tina-starter-grande

yarn install && gatsby develop
</code></pre>
Then copy your exported WordPress Markdown into the <code>content</code> directory or point the wp gatsby-markdown-export command at the content directory.
Want to port your WordPress or HTML theme to Gatsby? Checkout <a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/porting-an-html-site-to-gatsby/" rel="nofollow ugc">Porting an HTML Site to Gatsby</a> for tips.
<h3>Command Line Usage</h3>
The command line functionality uses WP-CLI to interact with WordPress. <a href="https://wp-cli.org/#installing" rel="nofollow ugc">WP-CLI is easy to install</a> if you haven’t already.
Once it’s installed, you can export content to a directory like this:
<pre><code>wp gatsby-markdown-export --directory=/example/gatsby-starter/src/content
</code></pre>
All CLI arguments are optional.
 Option 
 Description 
 Default value
 <code>--help</code> 
 get help
 <code>--directory=</code> 
 export output directory 
 random temp directory
 <code>--post_types=</code> 
 post types to export, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#post-type-parameters 
 page,post
 <code>--post_status=</code> 
 post status to export, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/#status-parameters 
 any
 <code>--fields_to_markdown=</code> 
 fields to convert to Markdown 
 excerpt
 <code>--excluded_front_matter=</code> 
 fields to exclude from front matter
 <code>--post_date_format=</code> 
 format for post publish date, see: https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php 
 c
 <code>--upload_dir=</code> 
 directory in the export to copy WordPress uploads 
 uploads
 <code>--remap_fields=</code> 
 remap front matter field names, example: find1,replace1;find2,replace2
 <code>--fields_to_array=</code> 
 convert single value front matter fields to arrays
 <code>--include_private_fields=</code> 
 private post meta fields to include (they start with _)
 <code>--skip_copy_uploads</code> 
 flag, skips copying WordPress uploads to the export
 <code>--skip_original_images</code> 
 flag, skips the use of original dimension images
 <code>--skip_enforce_charset</code> 
 flag, skips use of blog_charset for the XML charset
 <code>--create_type_directory</code> 
 flag, creates directories based on post type

WP Gatsby Markdown Exporter

Export WordPress content to Markdown for GatsbyJS.

Headless Mode vs WP Gatsby Markdown Exporter