Before launching your site, you'll need to migrate your content from your previous website to our system. There are two ways to do this:
- Your team migrates the content manually
- Our team migrates the content manually
If we migrate your content, we map structured and body content from old pages to equivalent fields in OpenCities content types.
If you want our team to migrate your content, you'll need to contact your project manager to get the process started, as these are paid options. Additionally, please remember that you will need to do a comprehensive review of all the content before going live to ensure that all the content is correct and there are no broken elements such as links or files.
If you want to migrate your content yourself, you can use this as a basic guide to what content types you should use:
| Pages on your previous site | OpenCities content type |
| Department landing pages | OC Department |
| Landing pages for sections | OC Landing Page |
| Building applications for development projects | OC Development Application |
| Mayor and other elected officials profiles | OC Elected Official |
| Events | OC Event |
| City or council services | OC Service |
| Long-term planning projects, priorities, and objectives | OC Initiative |
| Job postings | OC Job |
| Mapped locations that are not venues, parks, or projects | OC Location |
| Lost animal listings | OC Lost Animal |
| Minutes and agendas | OC Meeting |
| News articles and media releases | OC News Article |
| Parks | OC Park |
| Public works or city development projects | OC Project |
| Public notices | OC Public Notice |
| City or council venues | OC Venue |