Migrate From WordPress in One Click (Full Walkthrough)

Moving a blog off WordPress sounds terrifying — years of posts, images, categories, all tangled up in plugins. It isn't, though. I'm going to move a real WordPress site into VeloCMS, start to finish, with a guided wizard that shows you exactly what's coming across before a single post goes live.

Everything lives under Admin, then Migrate — it's a Pro-plan tool, and it walks you through it. I already exported my WordPress content, which is just the standard XML file WordPress hands you. So I'll choose Upload, drop that file in, and point it at my old media.

The wizard reads the whole file and tells you what it found — how many posts, how many images, your categories, your authors. No guessing. For Slow Sundays that's a couple hundred recipes and every photo attached to them, detected automatically.

Here's the part I love — a dry run. Before anything is written to your new blog, VeloCMS previews exactly what it'll create, so you can catch a weird category or a broken image while it's still safe. Nothing's committed yet.

When the preview looks right, you commit, and it actually runs — pulling in posts, rehosting your images on your own storage, and keeping your URLs so old links don't break. You watch the whole thing happen live.

And there it is — every recipe now living in VeloCMS, on a real theme, images loading fast, ready to publish. The wizard even helps you plan the cutover, so search engines follow you over to the new home.

That's a full WordPress blog moved, without a developer and without babysitting a single plugin. Start your own migration at velocms dot org.