#234 – K. Adam White on Migrating to Blocks With Artisanal Care and Enterprise Efficiency

K. Adam White, principal engineer at enterprise WordPress consultancy Human Made, discusses migrating large-scale content (tens to hundreds of thousands of posts) from other CMSs like Sitecore and page builders into WordPress' block editor. He explains a leaf-to-trunk pattern architecture, using theme patterns as templates to preserve visual fidelity during migration, and Human Made's open source 'rehydrator' plugin for injecting source data into pattern HTML. The conversation covers using Claude and node.js/SQLite tooling to audit legacy CMS exports and find edge cases, client onboarding and validation workflows, Core blocks versus bespoke blocks, Partially Synced Patterns, PHP-only blocks introduced in WordPress 7.0, and gaps in WordPress around granular content permissions and editorial workflow compared to traditional enterprise CMSs.

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