content-portability

Content Portability

Export WordPress content to portable local packages. Import to another site with smart ID remapping. Auto-backup before AI edits. Full builder data preservation, human-readable markdown previews, and optional media download.

What This Skill Does

Exports:

• Pages, posts, and custom post types — individually or in bulk
• Full builder data (Elementor, Bricks, Divi, etc.) alongside standard content
• Allowlisted post meta (SEO fields, featured images, builder config)
• Human-readable markdown preview of every page/post
• Optional media binary download for fully offline packages
• Manifest with hashes, stats, and export metadata

Imports:

• Reads a local Respira Content Package and pushes to a target WordPress site
• Smart ID remapping — media IDs, post IDs, and internal links rewritten for the target site
• Bulk conflict resolution — detects slug collisions upfront, one decision for all
• Mandatory server-side snapshots before any overwrites (safety net)
• Builder JSON rewriting with full ID mapping tables
• Fidelity verification — re-reads imported content and compares hashes

Auto-Backup:

• Quick-backup mode before any AI edit — saves a local snapshot to ./respira-backups/
• Timestamped, human-readable, zero-friction insurance

Requirements

• Respira for WordPress plugin installed and activated
• MCP connection configured (site URL + API key)
• For import: write access on the target site
• For media download: sufficient local disk space

How to Use

Trigger Phrases

• "export my site"
• "export the homepage"
• "backup my pages before editing"
• "download my content locally"
• "migrate content to my other site"
• "content portability"
• "create a local backup"
• "export with media"

Export Workflow

Phase 1: Scope Selection

1. Ask the user what to export:
2. Single page/post: "export the homepage", "backup the about page"
3. Full site: "export everything", "download all my content"
4. By type: "export all blog posts", "export portfolio items"
5. Ask whether to include media downloads:
6. Without media (default): Fast, small packages with URL references
7. With media: Downloads all referenced images/files locally for full offline portability

Phase 2: Content Enumeration

1. Call wordpress_list_pages, wordpress_list_posts, and/or wordpress_list_custom_posts to enumerate content in scope
2. For each item, call wordpress_read_page or wordpress_read_post with include=builder.extracted,meta.allowlisted to get full content with builder data
3. Report progress every 10 items: "Exported 30/120 pages..."

Phase 3: Write Local Package

1. Create the export directory structure:

respira-export/
├── manifest.json              # Package metadata, source site, export date, hashes
├── README.md                  # One-line import prompt for zero-friction migration
├── pages/
│   ├── home/
│   │   ├── content.json       # Full machine-readable export
│   │   └── content.md         # Human-readable markdown preview
│   ├── about/
│   │   ├── content.json
│   │   └── content.md
│   └── ...
├── posts/
│   ├── 2024-hello-world/
│   │   ├── content.json
│   │   └── content.md
│   └── ...
├── cpt/                       # Custom post types
│   └── {post_type}/
│       └── {slug}/
│           ├── content.json
│           └── content.md
└── media/                     # Only if --with-media
    ├── media-index.json       # URL→local-path mapping with old media IDs
    └── uploads/
        ├── hero-image.webp
        └── ...

1. For each page/post, write two files:

content.json — machine-readable, contains:

{
  "export_version": "1.0",
  "source_site": "https://example.com",
  "exported_at": "2026-03-16T14:30:00Z",
  "post": {
    "id": 42,
    "post_type": "page",
    "title": "About Us",
    "slug": "about",
    "status": "publish",
    "content": "<full HTML content>",
    "excerpt": "...",
    "modified": "2026-03-10T09:00:00Z"
  },
  "builder": {
    "name": "bricks",
    "payload": {},
    "extracted": {}
  },
  "meta": {
    "_thumbnail_id": 108,
    "_yoast_wpseo_title": "About Us | Example"
  },
  "hashes": {
    "content_hash": "sha256:abc123...",
    "builder_hash": "sha256:def456...",
    "meta_hash": "sha256:ghi789..."
  }
}

content.md — human-readable markdown preview:

# About Us

**Source:** https://example.com/about/
**Type:** page | **Status:** publish | **Builder:** Bricks
**Exported:** 2026-03-16

---

[Rendered text content extracted from HTML, preserving headings and structure]

## Section: Hero
- Heading: "Welcome to Our Company"
- Text: "We've been helping businesses..."
- Image: hero-team-photo.webp (Media ID: 108)

## Section: Team
- Heading: "Meet the Team"
...

1. If media download is enabled:
2. Call wordpress_list_media to get all media items
3. Filter to only media referenced by exported content
4. Download each file and save to media/uploads/
5. Write media/media-index.json mapping old URLs and IDs to local paths

Phase 4: Manifest & Stats

1. Write manifest.json:

{
  "export_version": "1.0",
  "source_site": "https://example.com",
  "source_wordpress_version": "6.7.1",
  "source_respira_version": "4.3.1",
  "exported_at": "2026-03-16T14:30:00Z",
  "scope": "full_site",
  "content": {
    "pages": 23,
    "posts": 8,
    "custom_post_types": { "portfolio": 12, "testimonial": 5 }
  },
  "media": {
    "included": true,
    "files": 156,
    "total_bytes": 52428800
  },
  "warnings": [],
  "skipped": [],
  "hashes": {
    "manifest_hash": "sha256:..."
  }
}

1. Write README.md:

# Respira Content Package

Exported from: https://example.com
Date: 2026-03-16
Contents: 23 pages, 8 posts, 17 custom posts, 156 media files

## To import this content to another site

Tell your AI agent:
> Import the content package from ./respira-export/

## Package format
- content.json files contain full machine-readable content with builder data
- content.md files are human-readable previews
- media/ contains downloaded media files (if included)

1. Show export stats summary:

Export Complete
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Pages exported:     23
Posts exported:      8
Custom posts:       17
Media files:       156
Package size:     52.4 MB
Warnings:           0
Skipped:            0
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Saved to: ./respira-export/

Import Workflow

Phase 1: Read & Validate Package

1. Read manifest.json from the local package
2. Validate export version compatibility
3. Report what will be imported: "Found 23 pages, 8 posts, 156 media files from example.com"

Phase 2: Upload Media (if included)

1. If media/ directory exists with files:
2. For each media file, call wordpress_upload_media on the target site
3. Build the media ID mapping table: { old_id: 108, new_id: 342 }
4. Log each upload; skip failures with warning
5. If media was not included in the package:
6. Media references will point to original URLs (cross-site references)
7. Warn the user about this

Phase 3: Detect Conflicts

1. For each content item in the package, check if a page/post with the same slug already exists on the target site
2. Present all conflicts upfront in a single table:

Slug Conflicts Detected (5 of 23 pages)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Slug          Source Title       Target Title
about         About Us           About Our Company
contact       Contact            Contact Us
team          Our Team           The Team
services      Services           Our Services
faq           FAQ                FAQ

1. Ask the user for a bulk resolution strategy:
2. Overwrite all: Replace target content with package content
3. Skip conflicts: Only import non-conflicting content
4. Rename imports: Add suffix to conflicting slugs (e.g., about-imported)

Phase 4: Snapshot Existing Content

1. MANDATORY: Before overwriting an