Importing into Kirby from Perch CMS

The CMS Questions
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I’m moving a site from Perch CMS into Kirby. Most of the pages will be copied over but I was hoping to import about 70 blog posts. What approach would you take here?

I can get Perch to write the data in various formats.

I’ve seen a couple of older posts about importing and how it’s possible to use a spreadsheet to generate the content in Kirby. Is that the best approach?

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Yes, you can read all kinds of files and iterate over the data to create pages.
Say you export a CSV and turned the content into an array:

// simplified example
foreach($csv as $csvPage) {
  page('blog')->createChild([
    'slug' => Str::slug($csvPage['title']),
    'template' => 'post',
    'content'  => [
      'title' => $csvPage['title'],
      // all the fields...
    ]
  ])->changeStatus("listed", 0);
}

I tend to create an import route for this as it’s the easiest and fastest way.

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Many thanks!

I’ve also found this Data Importer plugin which looks useful.