# What are the steps for migrating Discourse DB to Wordpress

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**Created:** [July 13, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-steps-for-migrating-discourse-db-to-wordpress/92277 "2018-07-13T14:30:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-steps-for-migrating-discourse-db-to-wordpress/92277/2 "2018-07-13T15:20:20Z")

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> [@paulmasri](#):
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> I want to migrate over to using the Wordpress database, what are the steps involved?

Why would you want to do that, even if it was possible?

afaik, they both use different DB engines:

- Discourse uses PostgresQL
- Wordpress uses MySQL/MariaDB

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