# Migrations

**URL:** https://forum.ghost.org/c/help/migrations/20.md?page=4

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## [Bulk Changes to Mobiledoc | Migration from Wordpress](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bulk-changes-to-mobiledoc-migration-from-wordpress/24490)

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**Author:** [@Daniel95](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Daniel95)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [July 27, 2021, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/bulk-changes-to-mobiledoc-migration-from-wordpress/24490 "2021-07-27T10:49:16Z")

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Hello together, I am looking for solutions in terms of bulk changes. The challenge looks as follows: I have migrated my blog from WP to ghost. The website link is https://bitcoin-2go.de Now, most of the old wordpress…

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## [Ghost Install on DirectAdmin VPS -- Upload works, Put/Delete fails, uses vhosts on nginx \[SOLVED\]](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-install-on-directadmin-vps-upload-works-put-delete-fails-uses-vhosts-on-nginx-solved/24381)

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**Author:** [@code\_s](https://forum.ghost.org/u/code_s)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 23, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-install-on-directadmin-vps-upload-works-put-delete-fails-uses-vhosts-on-nginx-solved/24381 "2021-07-23T11:15:30Z")

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Hi everyone, I am a recent convert from Wordpress. Ghost works fine on my local. I have a “successful” install to my staging site, but am running into some interesting behavior. Here’s some context behind it: What vers…

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## [Import from WordPress timeout](https://forum.ghost.org/t/import-from-wordpress-timeout/24256)

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**Author:** [@samrapdev](https://forum.ghost.org/u/samrapdev)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 18, 2021, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/import-from-wordpress-timeout/24256 "2021-07-18T02:28:48Z")

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Seems a few people have ran into Node server time outs when running larger Ghost imports from WordPress. I have a high profile client that needs this migration completed soon and am happy to pair with some folks who know…

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## [Site not loading via DO - high CPU usage](https://forum.ghost.org/t/site-not-loading-via-do-high-cpu-usage/23564)

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**Author:** [@andrii](https://forum.ghost.org/u/andrii)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2021, 7:59am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/site-not-loading-via-do-high-cpu-usage/23564 "2021-06-18T07:59:59Z")

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I’m using Ghost on $5 Digital Ocean droplet - mrhack.io It has few thousands posts, around 10K monthly visits. I recently migrated from WordPress. But, sometimes the website is not loading. Seems it is due to high CPU …

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## [Overriding storage configuration on an ephemeral EC2?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/overriding-storage-configuration-on-an-ephemeral-ec2/23506)

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**Author:** [@samrapdev](https://forum.ghost.org/u/samrapdev)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 15, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/overriding-storage-configuration-on-an-ephemeral-ec2/23506 "2021-06-15T19:24:19Z")

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I’m currently building out AWS cloud infrastructure to migrate a high-traffic blog from WordPress to Ghost 4.7. One of the requirements is that we use an S3 storage adapter for images. This is because we need to be able…

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## [Website Migration](https://forum.ghost.org/t/website-migration/19217)

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**Author:** [@LisaBraud](https://forum.ghost.org/u/LisaBraud)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 20, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/website-migration/19217 "2021-05-20T10:25:02Z")

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Is there any way to migrate WordPress websites to ghosts? I have recently developed website on WordPress but now I want to migrate to this platform.

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## [Possible to filter out private tags from previous and next posts?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/possible-to-filter-out-private-tags-from-previous-and-next-posts/22826)

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**Author:** [@mangoldn](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mangoldn)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 18, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/possible-to-filter-out-private-tags-from-previous-and-next-posts/22826 "2021-05-18T11:44:38Z")

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Dear Ghost community, I am using private tags (#de) to make our blog multilingual. Everything works perfectly so far, we can navigate to German posts and English posts. At the very bottom there are 3 additional posts b…

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## [Mobile editing, not possible on Android](https://forum.ghost.org/t/mobile-editing-not-possible-on-android/16350)

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**Author:** [@Happyfeet01](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Happyfeet01)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 10, 2021, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/mobile-editing-not-possible-on-android/16350 "2021-05-10T15:15:45Z")

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Hello, Ghost has no android client for mobile editing. The app on Github don’t work anymore. Since ghost 3.x It would be nice to make this possible again.Currently I think about an migration back to WordPress. Has an…

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## [Unlinked custom migration docs? (Working on Blogger→Ghost)](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unlinked-custom-migration-docs-working-on-blogger-ghost/22550)

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**Author:** [@dopplerfto](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dopplerfto)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unlinked-custom-migration-docs-working-on-blogger-ghost/22550 "2021-05-08T17:35:12Z")

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Howdy, y’all. I’m working on migrating my Blogger blog to Ghost. I’m a software engineer by trade, and I’m building my own migration tool for the task. As far as docs are concerned, the Ghost migration page links to h…

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## [Ghost Memory Consumption](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-memory-consumption/8350)

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**Author:** [@dsecareanu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/dsecareanu)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 13, 2021, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/ghost-memory-consumption/8350 "2021-04-13T05:35:24Z")

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Anyone ever ran into memory consumption issues with Ghost/NodeJS? I’m running 6 instances (only 1 has any relevant traffic, the rest are very small personal blogs) on a DO droplet (1vcpu, 2gb ram) and it oftens hits the…

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## [Substack import 429 error](https://forum.ghost.org/t/substack-import-429-error/21297)

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**Author:** [@stuwest](https://forum.ghost.org/u/stuwest)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 28, 2021, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/substack-import-429-error/21297 "2021-03-28T13:04:02Z")

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I’m using the migrate CLI to convert Substack posts for import into Ghost. Unfortunately, it’s failing, with a string of errors like this: Error: Unable to scrape URL \<substack post URL\> at ScrapeError (/usr/local/l…

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## [Wordpress to Ghost process recommendations](https://forum.ghost.org/t/wordpress-to-ghost-process-recommendations/12870)

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**Author:** [@Webweever](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Webweever)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [March 20, 2021, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/wordpress-to-ghost-process-recommendations/12870 "2021-03-20T06:52:16Z")

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I have a site with about 80 posts currently using Wordpress that i’m going to move to ghost, i’m just looking for some recommendations on the mechanics. I’m going to host on DigitalOcean. I already have the vps setup an…

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## [Workaround for needing sudo access for webserver user](https://forum.ghost.org/t/workaround-for-needing-sudo-access-for-webserver-user/18262)

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**Author:** [@unixandria](https://forum.ghost.org/u/unixandria)\
**Replies:** 23\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/workaround-for-needing-sudo-access-for-webserver-user/18262 "2021-03-19T21:30:51Z")

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Who in this godly world thought it’s a good idea to force you to make your webserver user have to be sudo? My setup is an Ubuntu 20.04 bare metal server. The server software I use is Caddy v2 running under www-data I’m…

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## [Migrating from wordpress](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migrating-from-wordpress/20880)

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**Author:** [@iamkingsleyf](https://forum.ghost.org/u/iamkingsleyf)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migrating-from-wordpress/20880 "2021-03-18T08:28:59Z")

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Hi, I have read the migration guide but there is a challenge I think was not addressed and I need someone who has gone through the process to help me understand. If I am to move siteA from wordpress to ghost how then d…

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## [Images not displaying after WP import](https://forum.ghost.org/t/images-not-displaying-after-wp-import/20646)

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**Author:** [@andrii](https://forum.ghost.org/u/andrii)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 12, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/images-not-displaying-after-wp-import/20646 "2021-03-12T10:08:58Z")

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So, after importing posts from WordPress using json file - some of the images are not displaying. Check here: https://onlinehikes.com/how-to-enable-custom-thumbnails-in-youtube/ Images in Ghost are taken from https://i…

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## [My ghost blog burnt last night](https://forum.ghost.org/t/my-ghost-blog-burnt-last-night/20676)

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**Author:** [@iero](https://forum.ghost.org/u/iero)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/my-ghost-blog-burnt-last-night/20676 "2021-03-11T16:59:07Z")

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Hello My ghost blog burnt in the OVH fire last night. I spent 2 months migrating manually my old wordpress (I’ve done 30%) and I need to restart everything. I have backups for raw images but not for database (I know… b…

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## [Safe to resize original images](https://forum.ghost.org/t/safe-to-resize-original-images/19795)

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**Author:** [@iero](https://forum.ghost.org/u/iero)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 2, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/safe-to-resize-original-images/19795 "2021-03-02T17:39:27Z")

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Hello After 200 posts, my ghost blog is 10Gb+ I seen that many images uploaded are in very high resolution (ie pano). But Ghost optimisation works well: -rw-r--r-- 1 ghost ghost 281K Jan 25 07:34 IMG\_8864.jpeg -rw-r-…

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## [Migrating from Wordpress with new or current domain?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migrating-from-wordpress-with-new-or-current-domain/20349)

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**Author:** [@simply\_niels](https://forum.ghost.org/u/simply_niels)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 23, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migrating-from-wordpress-with-new-or-current-domain/20349 "2021-02-23T16:07:45Z")

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Hi, I am currently moving back from Wordpress to ghost after a couple of years. As I am (currently) only a casual blogger I copied the content yet over from my Wordpress (anditjustworks.blog) to my ghost (itjustworks.bl…

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## [Unable to scrape URL when migrating from Substack](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-scrape-url-when-migrating-from-substack/20222)

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**Author:** [@votsircp](https://forum.ghost.org/u/votsircp)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 16, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-scrape-url-when-migrating-from-substack/20222 "2021-02-16T12:11:13Z")

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Hello! I’m trying to migrate from Substack. I’m on a MBP running macOS Big Sur. I did: npm install --global @tryghost/migrate Then ran: migrate substack --url --readPosts --email --drafts false And I’m getting: …

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## [Wordpress to Ghost migration and image links](https://forum.ghost.org/t/wordpress-to-ghost-migration-and-image-links/19605)

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**Author:** [@codfx](https://forum.ghost.org/u/codfx)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [January 20, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/wordpress-to-ghost-migration-and-image-links/19605 "2021-01-20T17:35:34Z")

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Hello, I am planning to migrate from WordPress to Ghost. I tested local Ghost installation with WP exported content and everything worked well. But now I have some concerns about SEO as most of the images in the existin…

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## [Previous/next links for posts with the same tag?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/previous-next-links-for-posts-with-the-same-tag/19058)

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**Author:** [@CheezBallz](https://forum.ghost.org/u/CheezBallz)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [December 24, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/previous-next-links-for-posts-with-the-same-tag/19058 "2020-12-24T15:27:24Z")

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Is it possible create links that act as prev/next links for a specific tag? Say we have a collection based on a specific tag. Someone reads a post from that collection. If they click the Previous link, they are directed …

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## [Can I also migrate comments from WordPress](https://forum.ghost.org/t/can-i-also-migrate-comments-from-wordpress/19027)

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**Author:** [@mcnaveen](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mcnaveen)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 22, 2020, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/can-i-also-migrate-comments-from-wordpress/19027 "2020-12-22T09:55:41Z")

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I’m planning to migrate my WordPress blog to Ghost. And planned to use Discourse as commenting system. Is it possible to migrate everything including the post and comments whithout losing anything?

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## [How can I embed a post block from Ghost on Wordpress page?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-can-i-embed-a-post-block-from-ghost-on-wordpress-page/19010)

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**Author:** [@Corby\_Stephens](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Corby_Stephens)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [December 21, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-can-i-embed-a-post-block-from-ghost-on-wordpress-page/19010 "2020-12-21T16:50:31Z")

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I have a Wordpress site that I use for my main landing page. I’m migrating blog posts to Ghost. But, I want to show a block of posts from Ghost on my Wordpress site so that people who visit the landing page can also see …

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## [Hotlinked Images After WordPress Migration](https://forum.ghost.org/t/hotlinked-images-after-wordpress-migration/18063)

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**Author:** [@chrisagiddings](https://forum.ghost.org/u/chrisagiddings)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 5, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/hotlinked-images-after-wordpress-migration/18063 "2020-11-05T22:43:50Z")

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I’m working a migration from WordPress for one of my eldest blogs (tea-guy.com) which is having major issues with my current host for some reason. The migration can be found here: http://ec2-3-137-157-139.us-east-2.comp…

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## [Substack Import](https://forum.ghost.org/t/substack-import/18014)

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**Author:** [@polyinnovator](https://forum.ghost.org/u/polyinnovator)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/substack-import/18014 "2020-11-03T14:40:34Z")

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Hello, I am working on importing all my work from two sites into ghost. I got the wordpress working, couldn’t export zip, but json worked. Alas, with substack the export is zip, and within are separations for members an…

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## [Website Migration to Ghost](https://forum.ghost.org/t/website-migration-to-ghost/17574)

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**Author:** [@MichaelGib](https://forum.ghost.org/u/MichaelGib)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/website-migration-to-ghost/17574 "2020-10-10T09:46:42Z")

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Hi there, I have my website built on wordpress. Firstly, it was being managed by one of my developers but then I decided to manage it at my own. Now, I am having lot of problems in managing the website especially with t…

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## [Migration from Wordpress to Ghost hosted by Digital Ocean Droplet fails](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migration-from-wordpress-to-ghost-hosted-by-digital-ocean-droplet-fails/17434)

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**Author:** [@DonkeyKongJr](https://forum.ghost.org/u/DonkeyKongJr)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 10, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/migration-from-wordpress-to-ghost-hosted-by-digital-ocean-droplet-fails/17434 "2020-10-10T01:49:34Z")

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Hi folks, I’m trying to migrate from WordPress to Ghost (3.35.3, MySQL DB, NGINX), which is installed on a Digital Ocean Droplet. The site is running at https://schadler-solutions.com The exported WordPress ZIP Archiv…

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## [Mass remove tags](https://forum.ghost.org/t/mass-remove-tags/17301)

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**Author:** [@unnanego](https://forum.ghost.org/u/unnanego)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [September 30, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/mass-remove-tags/17301 "2020-09-30T02:40:37Z")

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While writing a script to migrate my blog from wordpress to ghost, I unknowingly have created hundreds of tags. What is the best way to remove them, apart from deleting one by one?

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## [Dynamic routing question](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dynamic-routing-question/17207)

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**Author:** [@unnanego](https://forum.ghost.org/u/unnanego)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 23, 2020, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/dynamic-routing-question/17207 "2020-09-23T07:31:09Z")

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I’m writing my own script to migrate from wordpress to Ghost. The problem that I’m facing is that in wordpress permalinks include all categories, for example, if a post has “news” and “from partners” categories, then the…

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## [How can i migrate muys istes faely form wordpress to Ghost CMS?](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-can-i-migrate-muys-istes-faely-form-wordpress-to-ghost-cms/16734)

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**Author:** [@kashif\_tunio](https://forum.ghost.org/u/kashif_tunio)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 26, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-can-i-migrate-muys-istes-faely-form-wordpress-to-ghost-cms/16734 "2020-08-26T13:27:09Z")

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hello, I am a WordPress cms user since 2016 currently I am very disappointed with their new Gutenberg Text editor. I am really frustrated with its loaded backend I want a faster Text editor with light backend to work e…

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