# Migration of existing site to 3.5 - editor & builder to blocks

**URL:** <https://forum.getkirby.com/t/migration-of-existing-site-to-3-5-editor-builder-to-blocks/21353>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** v3\
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/migration-of-existing-site-to-3-5-editor-builder-to-blocks/21353 "2021-02-25T13:50:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![waffl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@waffl](https://forum.getkirby.com/u/waffl)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 1:50pm UTC](https://forum.getkirby.com/t/migration-of-existing-site-to-3-5-editor-builder-to-blocks/21353/1 "2021-02-25T13:50:29Z")

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**edit** Answering my own questions:

I’m a bit confused about the migration process of an existing site to 3.5 with the new block editor. Unfortunately my project used both editor and builder 😬.

> 1. Should I be removing `getKirby/editor` and `timoetting/kirby-builder` via composer?

Yes

> 1. Is there a default set of snippets available anywhere?

> **[editor/snippets at master · getkirby/editor](https://github.com/getkirby/editor/tree/master/snippets)**
>
> A new type of WYSIWYG editor for Kirby. Contribute to getkirby/editor development by creating an account on GitHub.

> 1. I’m trying to get a simple HTML representation of the entire group of blocks for use in a headless JSON endpoint. I am trying `$page->exampleField()->toHtml()` but getting:  
> `"[{\"content\":{\"text\":\"<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet<\\/p>\"},\"id\":\"a6f3bac6-6914-4d93-9d1b-8960b6bb69ef\",\"isHidden\":false,\"type\":\"text\"},{\"content\":{\"text\":\"<p>Hello World<\\/p>\"},\"id\":\"d9f5ca42-78ff-4d63-8199-eacf370d405d\",\"isHidden\":false,\"type\":\"text\"}]"`

The solution was `$page->exampleField()->toBlocks()->toHtml();`

and `$page->exampleField()->toBlocks()` results in `{"a6f3bac6-6914-4d93-9d1b-8960b6bb69ef":{},"d9f5ca42-78ff-4d63-8199-eacf370d405d":{}}`

[The guide states:](https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/panel/fields/blocks#blocks-in-your-templates)

> If you don’t want to care about the HTML for each individual block, you can echo the entire blocks collection to render all blocks.

In `/site/snippets/blocks/text.php` I have:

```auto
<p><?= kirbytext($content) ?></p>

```