This application is based on Laravel Zero, a version of laravel optimized for command line usage.

This is a command line tool for converting a wordpress backup xml file into a bunch of markdown files for posts and pages (and other types).

You have two options. Install it globally into your system and make sure the binary wordpress-to-markdown is within your $PATH variable.

The other way is to install it as your project dependency (like phpunit for example).

composer require rokde/wordpress-to-markdown 

Then you can run vendor/bin/wordpress-to-markdown within your project.

Give your wordpress source xml file and the target folder the converter shall store the converted files.

wordpress-to-markdown convert path/to/your/wordpress.xml path/to/store/markdown/

You can force the writing process with the flag --force.

Modifying the file extension of your created files is also supported with the option --extension. Default is md.

Changing the date format or make more folders then th default behaviour does is supported too. Give your date format with the option --format and give one of the possible values. You can also use / to make directories. Default is Y-m-d.

This setting will only be used for blog posts. Pages and other types do not use any date formatted string in their resulting filename.

That´s it.

Wordpress to Markdown Converter is an open-source software licensed under the MIT license.