Help in transferring content from a ColdFusion site to a different format?

[Guest]

I am knowledgeble in Dreamweaver. I had a friend contact me to help her change her ColdFusion site hosting to a Wordpress site where she felt more comfortable accessing the information and she wants more access to make changes. I have no knowledge of Coldfusion, but I think she will have to take the elements from her site and start over...I don't believe there is a way to transfer files into a cms like Wordpress? Can her Coldfusion files can be translated into a static site?

[Joshua_Cyr]

ColdFusion is a programming language no part of the ColdFusion code will be

reusable. The only thing you can do is copy/paste the content to the cms

and maybe some HTML in there you can use as templates for Wordpress.

[Guest]

Thanks! I thought as much, but just wanted to double check.

[ilssac]

As Joshua said, CFML is a programming language.  That means it can be (and probably should be) dynamically building the HTML output (and|or many other types). It could be very challenging to extract the content from the server as the content could be all types of places, databases, text files, other servers, etc.

The only real way to get the content would be from the client side.  There are many tools that would spider the site and save all the generated HTML, images, JavaScript, CSS, etc to local files on the client system.  An Internet search should turn up many choices.