I am writing a wordpress xml export to concrete5 migration bridge
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that's it.
It sound like a good idea?
It sound like a good idea?
sounds like a great idea
I'd buy it and move my site over to c5. Recreating all that work is only reason I haven't.
great to hear. I am working on it literally all day today..if it takes that long.
I am not going to try to port over comments, I don't really see the point there...unless someone thinks it is worth doing? I'm more interested in just creating the pages, setting the titles, content, date public and all of that and maintaining a semblance of the original site tree.
I am still working out how i'll handle the internal links in the site, I need to build out my sample xml a bit more to make sure I have everything covered, but I am going to go ahead and do that now.
If anyone wants to post a wordpress blog export or email it to c5username - c + "." + conrads @ gmail.com that'd be helpful for testing..assuming that your export doesn't expose anything confidential, which i don't think they do?
I am targeting 2.8 exports only.
-Scott
I am not going to try to port over comments, I don't really see the point there...unless someone thinks it is worth doing? I'm more interested in just creating the pages, setting the titles, content, date public and all of that and maintaining a semblance of the original site tree.
I am still working out how i'll handle the internal links in the site, I need to build out my sample xml a bit more to make sure I have everything covered, but I am going to go ahead and do that now.
If anyone wants to post a wordpress blog export or email it to c5username - c + "." + conrads @ gmail.com that'd be helpful for testing..assuming that your export doesn't expose anything confidential, which i don't think they do?
I am targeting 2.8 exports only.
-Scott
i understand if you decide against it, but it would be really good for the community's growth if this was released as a free tool for people.
I personally don't have any comments. The people who visit my site aren't there to comment since I don't really do anything but say "here is my work, pay me to do your work". However there are a lot of blogs that thrive off of the commenting system so not doing comments might be a drawback not sure.
it's working.
I believe I have a relational mapping so any sort of site-tree is added and honored correctly and all of that, I am putting in some time to create a decent export with interlinking to wp pages then I can parse those and images I guess and call it a done deal.
Again if anyone has a wordpress blog export they'd like to volunteer that'd be great.
-Scott
I believe I have a relational mapping so any sort of site-tree is added and honored correctly and all of that, I am putting in some time to create a decent export with interlinking to wp pages then I can parse those and images I guess and call it a done deal.
Again if anyone has a wordpress blog export they'd like to volunteer that'd be great.
-Scott
i'm pretty surprised no one really seems that interested in this thing :).
I have images being imported and added to the filemanager and referenced correctly in the added content block, files are also added to an optionally created fileset on a per imported wordpress basis and it is reasonably decent at detecting multiple references to the same file but not bulletproof :).
I have images being imported and added to the filemanager and referenced correctly in the added content block, files are also added to an optionally created fileset on a per imported wordpress basis and it is reasonably decent at detecting multiple references to the same file but not bulletproof :).
I think a lot of people are just waiting to see how this goes.
WP to c5 is big. Shider makes a good point. Manually converting would be a huge pain. But I think anyone who has a WP site and has used c5 before wishes they had started with c5.
Your converter could impact c5's market share dramatically.
However, I think a lot of people got used to a centralized page creation method. To a degree, I understand, especially when you have a rather deep site tree.
But I guess when it comes down to it, I chose c5 because of how easy development was compared to other CMSs, and only slightly less so because of the UI.
I digress, your converter is a great idea. Making it free would be an awful selfless act. Many would appreciate it. But I wouldn't sell yourself short. :)
- Isaac
WP to c5 is big. Shider makes a good point. Manually converting would be a huge pain. But I think anyone who has a WP site and has used c5 before wishes they had started with c5.
Your converter could impact c5's market share dramatically.
However, I think a lot of people got used to a centralized page creation method. To a degree, I understand, especially when you have a rather deep site tree.
But I guess when it comes down to it, I chose c5 because of how easy development was compared to other CMSs, and only slightly less so because of the UI.
I digress, your converter is a great idea. Making it free would be an awful selfless act. Many would appreciate it. But I wouldn't sell yourself short. :)
- Isaac
I have a site in Wordpress too and the only reason I have not moved it to c5 yet is the fact of having to redo, re-tag and re-configure all articles from it, a migration tool would definetely have moved me to c5.
i posted it somewhere you can probably find it in the google site search, it was basic as in it did the content, imported the files, made nice URLs and the sitemap structure was intact. I spent about 15 hours on it then decided that it wasn't something I would sell and I kinda lost interest. It is again posted somewhere on the forum by me, maybe even in this post :). I can't remember when I posted it.
VERY INTERESTED IN THIS THING!
Yes, a WP -> C5 importer would be a gargantuan contribution to the growth of the platform. Probably worth about a bazillion karma points.
Count me as one of the VERY interested in this!
Count me as one of the VERY interested in this!
Was wondering if this ever came about. I am moving my site and it's a toss up between c5 and EE this might make a big difference.
Steph
Steph
its currently sinning for the PRB to review
Looking forward to this. ScottC's interim version above didn't work for me, so hopefully the approved addon will.
that was a year ago (2010)- it has since been removed. RIght now there is no wordpress import except in the forums.
Jeez, so it was - i didn't read closely enough and thought this was still a live project.
What do you mean by in the forums?
What do you mean by in the forums?
the one above and anyothers that might be floating about. I don't need one so I've never looked.
BTW, I'm still working on Japanese localization of blog block...
Sorry... I have to take care of discussion block first.