Importing an existing site

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filepress import crawls a public site into a sibling content tree. Discovery prefers sitemap and RSS.

pnpm filepress import --source https://example.com \
  --inspire https://www.catalystforge.com \
  --yes

Articles land in posts/. Evergreen URLs land in pages/. A long home bio becomes pages/home.md plus homePage (index at /posts). Old paths go to static/_redirects.

Pass up to three --inspire URLs. Structure from the first; accent and fonts from the rest. With Ollama, import asks for a token brief. --no-llm still writes a deterministic theme.css.

After import, pnpm dev on the new site. Open Genie if the first theme needs a local taste loop. Overview: Import.