How to migrate from Wordpress to Payload

Payload is quickly becoming the developer-preferred Next.js CMS and full-stack backend. And an increasingly common request we get is how to migrate an existing WordPress site to Payload.
Considered a more flexible alternative to WordPress, Payload is fully TypeScript, offers an elegant admin panel to create content, and far more optimal developer experience.
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🚚 In this migration tutorial, we walk through ...
- The differences and similarities between WordPress and Payload
- How to set up a Payload project
- Creating blocks within Payload
- Migrating media and pages from WP to Payload
- Migrating posts, including Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to Payload
🔗 Download migration scripts
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A primer on Payload ...
- The fastest growing headless CMS in our category.
- Next.js native, so it can seamlessly integrate it into your Next app. You can also one-click deploy on Vercel.
- Fully open-source, offering the flexibility of self-hosting or managed hosting.
- Fully TypeScript, eliminating the need to navigate through a UI - simply configure everything in code.
- Highly extensible, granting you full control over custom hooks, endpoints, and more. It's not just a CMS; you can extend it to become a comprehensive backend for any application you build.
- Use as a standalone app if you're working with other frameworks.
Get started in one line: npx create-payload-app@beta
Big thanks to our friends at 10xMedia.de, a Payload preferred agency, who created this video.

[@Sairam-Kagitha]

Payload team, please make a series on how to use and customize payload, or like complete payload tutorial

[@payloadcms]

We're planning on this-it should be released shortly after 3.0. 💪

[@rowan015]

@@payloadcms can't wait. Is 3.0 still pending Next15 > Pending React19 suspense issue?

[@stylrart]

Don't need these migration advice becaus I left Wordpress years ago but you did an awesome job explaining, so I still learned a lot. Thanx man!

[@themindstorm9947]

Thanks for the tutorial! I’d love to see a commenting feature too!

[@AsyncDpradillos]

Thanks! I’d love to see a commenting feature (comments + likes, etc)

[@user-jx3px6ig3v]

This is good. Please make more payload tutorials, i need them ASAP. Love payload ❤

[@muneebakram1670]

Few of the features that I think missing in PayloadCMS as compare to the WordPress
- Themes (Server side rendered simple HTML / EJS Templates).
- Ability to generate MegaMenu.
- Plugin store UI
I know payload CMS is headless CMS but this could be really useful if we have a plugin that we can just install and have all the functionality out of the box without having to configure it manually.

[@payloadcms]

We have templates available out of the box: npx create-payload-app@beta --use-pnpm -t website. Ecommerce coming soon!

[@ssygon2]

Love how PayloadCMS just focuses on creating datamodels for different types of data(text, images, etc), like some other types of CMS I've used. Looks fast too:
Question:
When you setup the datamodels BlogCategories, etc at 12:24
Then register them at 13:00, and the collections now automatically show up.
But what if I start adding new blogCategory data entries, and then via code, I rename or remove a fieldname, from that BlogCategories datamodel?
After removing that field, will the data values for that field be corrupted/deleted or (still remain there, if i re-add back the removed fieldname via code)?
Also I'm guessing just renaming the fieldname via code, shouldn't accidentally cause data corruption/loss?

[@alexandruaxentioi3006]

Payload is cool, the only good alternative from filament laravel yet I'm unsure about its maturity

[@loilock]

We’ve been using it at work for a good while now, it’s been extremely stable, fast, and it’s declarative nature has made development a breeze compared to other cms’s we’ve tried

[@AllAboutPayload]

That's a fair point, it is still young and things evolve rather rapidly. However, we've been using it for countless simple and complex projects, if there were any issues at all it was due to our code and not payload itself XD

[@alexandruaxentioi3006]

@@loilock would you guys be cool to have an open discussion around this? I've been working with laravel filament a lot for this kind of stuff and I'm really curious about how things are working on a prod environment with payload

[@alexandruaxentioi3006]

@@AllAboutPayload I want to see, really curious about how that works in production

[@KratosCY]

Thanks for making this video for people who will convert to Payload from Wordpress. However, the migration scripts unfortunately didn't work for me. Additionally, don't you think it is better if we used wp-json API on Wordpress to fetch all the data instead of dealing with the difficulty of XML?

[@visualmodo]

Very good video tutorial!

[@FULLUPE1]

This is promising 🎉

[@btpjunk]

import { Block } from 'payload'; "Cannot find module 'payload' or its corresponding type declarations.ts(2307)"

[@quornik]

Quick question: Does it work in PayloadCMS 2.0 or in 3.0 beta only?

[@ReuelTeodoro]

Awesome can you also show how to deploy it in the following videos

[@davidsejna1695]

Can I host payload on vercel?

[@PixxelTim]

Do you also have examples of how to ensure responsive layouts with payload blocks? That's something I sometimes miss with Gutenberg.

[@MrAfusensi]

You create the blocks yourself so make the HTML responsive.

[@alioftech]

It would be great if you could share all of the code in one repo, instead of putting it together. It helps a lot.

[@howuseehim]

Can we get ecommerce type tutorial

[@payloadcms]

Yes, this is being planned upon release of 3.0.

[@zachshirow]

Niceeeeee ❤❤❤❤❤

[@user-jx3px6ig3v]

This is good. Please make more payload tutorials, i need them ASAP. Love payload ❤