This project aims to tackle two obstacles in the way of freely transferring sites from one CMS or platform to another: namely that different systems maintain non-compatible representations for a site’s theme and custom data types.
For example, consider three popular platforms:
- Jekyll uses the Liquid templating language and can read data in Markdown front matter or in external resources like a CSV.
- TYPO3 uses its own Fluid templates with TypoScript configuration and can read custom elements through one of many data processors.
- WordPress relies on its own block-based templating system and reads data from variants of its post type as well as meta key/value pairs for the post
Because these systems are unique, direct conversion is not possible, they require adapters. This project will build these missing theme adapters and data type adapters, enabling smoother transitions between platforms.
LLMs will power the extraction and generation of compatible visual representations, as well as a mapping from each custom content type into those representations. An intermediate format for layout and templating will unify efforts to add new adapters, as they will only need to provide the import from or the export to that intermediate format.
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