Divi Migration Tools

Different criteria to migrate the Divi shortcodes.

• Migrate the following Divi shortcodes to Gutenberg blocks 🙌

  • [et_pb_video]

    • It will pick the youtube url and create a youtube block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

  • [et_pb_button]

    • It will pick the {href, text color, background color} and create a button block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

  • [et_pb_image]

    • It will pick the {src, align attribute, height, width} and create a image block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

  • [et_pb_fullwidth_image]

    • It will pick the {src, align attribute, height, width} and create a image block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

  • [et_pb_post_title]

    • It will create a group block and nest the heading,image,paragraph blocks inside it then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.
    • This will be dependent on a post where shortcode is added. So it will behave like the_post() behaviour for single page.
    • This will pull the styles too. i.e. background-color, font-style, font-size, line-height etc.

  • [et_pb_divider]

    • It will pick the {color} and create a shape divider block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

  • [et_pb_blurb]

    • It will pick the {image src, align attributes, paragraph test} and create a image block + heading block then it will replace the shortcode with Gutenberg block inside the post-content.

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• Skip the following Divi shortcodes to Gutenberg blocks ⚠️

  • [embed], [caption], [toc], [Sarcastic], [gallery], [Tweet], [Proof]

    • These shortcode doesn't have any dependency on Divi.

  • [et_social_follow]

    • This shortcode is coming though a plugin called Monarch and it will work independently without Divi

  • [et_pb_tabs], [et_pb_tab], [et_pb_testimonial], [et_pb_contact_form] , [et_pb_contact_field], [et_pb_video_slider], [et_pb_video_slider_item], [et_pb_social_media_follow], [et_pb_social_media_follow_network], [et_pb_blog], [et_pb_pricing_tables], [et_pb_team_member], [et_pb_pricing_tables]

    • These shortcodes needs to be fixed manually by adding needful content markup.

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• Divi shortcodes that can be cleared from the post-content 🧐 [Most crucial and important for manual review post script work]

  • [et_pb_section], [et_pb_row], [et_pb_column], [et_pb_text], [et_pb_fullwidth_header], [et_pb_code], [et_pb_cta], [et_pb_row_inner], [et_pb_column_inner], [et_pb_sidebar], [et_pb_slider], [et_pb_slide], [et_pb_line_break_holder], [et_pb_toggle], [et_pb_fullwidth_code]
    • These shortcodes can be cleared from markup but again manual verification is required.

Migration Commands:

• wp divi-cli migrate-shortcodes

  • This command will start migration posts for posts in dry-run mode.
  • It will keep the copy of old Divi post-content in post-meta.
  • Flags:
    • --post-type => Value can be post or page or cpt.
    • --status => Value can be publish or draft.
    • --dry-run => Value can be true or false.

• wp divi-cli reset-divi-content

  • This command will revert the migration and will replace the original Divi content.
  • It is possible because before migration, Divi content is being stored in postmeta as copy of old Divi content.
  • Flags:
    • --post-type => Value can be post or page or cpt.
    • --status => Value can be publish or draft.
    • --dry-run => Value can be true or false.

Migration logs

• Above command will create a logs inside the uploads directory.
• path of logs will be ~/uploads/divi-migration-logs/.
• File names will be divi-shortcode-logs-{post-status}-{post-type}.csv. based on post-status and post-type will be passed while calling the command
• I.e. https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/divi-migration-logs/divi-shortcode-logs-publish-post.csv