Whether we’re modernizing an old personal blog or migrating hundreds of thousands of existing posts from another CMS, using WordPress in 2026 means converting our content to Blocks. The “Convert to Blocks” button in the editor works well enough for one post, but if we have dozens or hundreds, what can we do to make the process less manual and more powerful? How can we migrate a site’s content directly into full block patterns, without losing the columns and structure it had before?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this talk I will share my experience leading a Sitecore-to-WordPress migration for a global nonprofit, and how full-site editing and AI are reshaping site migrations. We’ll show how we leverage AI to analyze and understand the structure of an existing site, the decisions and process we use to map that content into WordPress data structures, the strengths and limitations of agents and WordPress MCP for restructuring content, and how we build in-editor tools to let humans customize and enhance bulk-migrated content where it matters most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We’re excited to share practical lessons from bringing an entire project directly into block patterns and templates, along with takeaways about block transforms, block bindings, and balancing automation with editorial oversight… lessons that can apply to WordPress projects of any scale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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