FAQ

Is Passer free?

Lite is, and it is not a trial. It brings across posts, pages, custom post types, users, media, taxonomies and comments from a WXR export or the REST API, with the full Gutenberg, classic-content, shortcode and ACF handling and the whole plan-provision-run pipeline.

Pro is a one-off $99 with a $79/year renewal, and adds the database and wp-cli sources plus the six domains that only they can reach: WooCommerce, SEO metadata, redirects, menus, widgets and forms.

How is this different from craftcms/wp-import?

Two things: reach and sources.

wp-import handles posts, pages, custom post types, users, media, taxonomies, ACF and Gutenberg. It explicitly does not handle WooCommerce, SEO metadata, redirects, menus, widgets or forms — and it reads WordPress over the REST API only, from the command line only.

Passer covers those six domains, and reads from a database, a WXR export, the REST API or wp-cli over SSH. The REST-only part is the deeper problem: the data those domains live in — wp_options for menus and widgets, wp_postmeta for SEO, the wc_* tables for commerce — is barely exposed over REST at all.

Do I have to uninstall wp-import?

No. If it is installed, Passer reuses its ACF adapters and Gutenberg block transformers for anything it does not handle itself, including adapters you wrote in config/wp-import/. It is not required either way.

Does Passer write to WordPress?

Never. Every connection is read-only, and the database source enforces it by attempting a write on connect and refusing the credentials if it succeeds.

Will it migrate my theme?

No. Templates are the developer's job, and always will be.

Can I run it more than once?

That is the design. Every WordPress record that became something in Craft is in the ID map, so a second run updates rather than duplicating. Migrate a copy in week one, correct the mapping, and re-run against the live site on cutover day.

What happens to passwords?

Imported users need a reset. WordPress hashes with phpass or bcrypt in its own format and Craft cannot verify either. Passer says so in the report rather than implying otherwise.

Do I need SEOmatic, Retour, Formie and the rest?

No. Passer hard-requires none of the plugins it writes to. Every domain has a fallback that needs nothing but Craft — plain fields for SEO, a config/redirects.php for redirects, a structure section for menus — and the wizard shows you what it found.

What about WooCommerce orders?

Products, variations, attributes, categories, coupons, customers and orders all come across, reading either legacy post-based orders or High-Performance Order Storage. Orders arrive as history, keeping the totals the customer was actually charged rather than letting Commerce recalculate them against today's tax rates.

My WordPress site is already switched off. Can I still migrate it?

Yes, if you have a .sql dump or a WXR export. The database source works against a restored dump, and a WXR file needs no credentials and no network at all.

What does it do with a block or shortcode it does not recognise?

Keeps it. An unhandled Gutenberg block keeps its rendered markup and is named in the report; an unhandled shortcode is left in place. Both mark something that needs a decision, and deleting them would hide that.

Which versions are supported?

Craft CMS 5.3+ and PHP 8.2+. WooCommerce import needs Craft Commerce 5.0+.