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Three Technology Challenges we Faced in the Migration of KFF.org to WordPress Austin Smith Partner, Alley Interactive Lead Developer of KFF.org [email protected] June 13, 2013

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Alley Interactive's Austin Smith, joins Robin & Evonne to discuss the technical challenges and complexities of migrating Kaiser Family Foundation's long-time website from an old system to WordPress. If you're considering moving a legacy CMS to WordPress, this session is for you.

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Three Technology Challenges we Faced in the Migration of KFF.org to WordPress

Austin SmithPartner, Alley InteractiveLead Developer of [email protected]

June 13, 2013

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PROBLEM ONEWe had to migrate data from

six different sources.

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PROBLEM TWOKFF’s post types require many

complex custom fields.

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49 Lines of Code 9 Lines of Code

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PROBLEM THREEWordPress Lacked an

Awesome Search Engine

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