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WordpressImport

Questions answered by this recipe

How can I import the content of my existing Wordpress blog into PmWiki? This section is optional; use it to indicate the types of questions (if any) this recipe is intended to answer.

Description

I have been keeping a personal diary in Wordpress for several years. I am planning to move the content to PmWiki. This recipe describes my progress so far.

Importing entries is a two stage process. First Wordpress entries are exported as xml and saved to a file. The second stage is to parse the xml file and create a wiki page for each entry. In some cases my blog has more than one entry per page, in this case I concatenate the entries into a single page for that day.

Wiki pages are created in yyyymmdd format for easy sorting using the pagelist function. At the moment Wordpress categories are ignored completely - this is something I plan to address in the next version.

Other improvements are making the page title the same as the blog entry title, although this will cause problems where wiki pages have more than one blog entry.

Notes

You need to download two files for this recipe:

• wordpress_export_xml.phpΔ - exports entries in your blog as xml.
• pmw_convert.phpΔ - create wiki pages from the Wordpress xml file.
  It looks like these files are inverted: pmw_convert.php is the one that extracts from the wp database and creates the xml file, while wordpress_export.php actually does the page creation. --tamouse November 13, 2011, at 03:45 AM

Edit both files where indicated to fit your needs. The directory where the wordpress exported xml file and the new wiki pages are created need to be writeable by your webserver.

Release Notes

This is very much an experimental release, so expect features and bugs to change on a regular basis:) The method used to clean characters that are not valid xml from the blog body is very crude. If anyone can improve this, please go ahead.

If the recipe has multiple releases, then release notes can be placed here. Note that it's often easier for people to work with "release dates" instead of "version numbers".

Comments

• I'm wondering why you don't use the wordpress export feature and something like SimpleXML to manage the XML data? I recently wrote something to convert a wordpress installation I was using more as a CMS than a blog. It was interesting; I did it in Perl rather than PHP, but it may be moderately useful for someone, so I'm attaching it. wp2pm.pl.txtΔ --tamouse November 13, 2011, at 03:45 AM
  • Okay, that attachment doesn't work for some reason -- returns a 500 error. So, I'm attaching it as a zip instead. wp2pm.zipΔ --tamouse November 13, 2011, at 03:56 AM

Is there anything new about the page name == post title feature?

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Contributors

The variable $query has a problem into pmw_convert.php. I modified it:

$query = "SELECT ID, post_date, post_title, post_status, post_modified, post_content FROM wp_posts ORDER BY ID ASC";