Link to a new plugin solving my question.

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / tips / Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn

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+[[!meta date="2007-10-05 06:59:14 +0000"]]
+

 Use case: You want to move away from Wordpress to Ikiwiki as your blogging/website platform, but you want to retain your old posts.
 
 Use case: You want to move away from Wordpress to Ikiwiki as your blogging/website platform, but you want to retain your old posts.
 

-[This](http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/?p=ikiwiki-wordpress-import.git) is a simple tool that generates [git-fast-import](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html)-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file. It retains creation time of each post, so you can use Ikiwiki's <tt>--gettime</tt> to get the preserve creation times on checkout. 
+[This](http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/?p=ikiwiki-wordpress-import.git) is a simple tool that generates [git-fast-import](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html)-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file.

 
 WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned.
 
 
 WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned.
 

+The script uses the [BeautifulSoup][] module.
+
+[BeautifulSoup]: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
+

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 I include a modified version of this script. This version includes the ability to write \[[!tag foo]] directives, which the original intended, but didn't actually do.
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 I include a modified version of this script. This version includes the ability to write \[[!tag foo]] directives, which the original intended, but didn't actually do.


@@ -11,3 +17,88 @@ I include a modified version of this script. This version includes the ability t
 -- [[users/simonraven]]
 
 [[ikiwiki-wordpress-import]]
 -- [[users/simonraven]]
 
 [[ikiwiki-wordpress-import]]

+
+-----
+
+Perhaps slightly insane, but here's an XSLT style sheet that handles my pages.  It's basic, but sufficient to get started.
+Note that I had to break up the ikiwiki meta strings to post this.
+
+-- JasonRiedy
+
+       <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+       <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
+         xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+         xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
+         xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/">
+         
+       <xsl:output method="text"/>
+       <xsl:output method="text" name="txt"/>
+       
+       <xsl:variable name='newline'><xsl:text>
+       </xsl:text></xsl:variable>
+       
+       <xsl:template match="channel">
+         <xsl:apply-templates select="item[wp:post_type = 'post']"/>
+       </xsl:template>
+       
+       <xsl:template match="item">
+         <xsl:variable name="idnum" select="format-number(wp:post_id,'0000')" />
+         <xsl:variable name="basename"
+                       select="concat('wp-posts/post-',$idnum)" />
+         <xsl:variable name="filename"
+                       select="concat($basename, '.html')" />
+         <xsl:text>Creating </xsl:text>
+         <xsl:value-of select="concat($filename, $newline)" />
+         <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="txt">
+           <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta title="</xsl:text>
+           <xsl:value-of select="replace(title, '&quot;', '&amp;ldquo;')"/>
+           <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta date="</xsl:text>
+           <xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
+           <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta updated="</xsl:text>
+           <xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
+           <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="content:encoded"/>
+           <xsl:text>
+       
+       </xsl:text>
+           <xsl:apply-templates select="category[@domain='tag' and not(@nicename)]">
+             <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
+           </xsl:apply-templates>
+         </xsl:result-document>
+         <xsl:apply-templates select="wp:comment">
+           <xsl:sort select="date"/>
+           <xsl:with-param name="basename">$basename</xsl:with-param>
+         </xsl:apply-templates>
+       </xsl:template>
+       
+       <xsl:template match="wp:comment">
+         <xsl:param name="basename"/>
+         <xsl:variable name="cnum" select="format-number(wp:comment_id, '000')" />
+         <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat($basename, '/comment_', $cnum, '._comment')"/>
+         <xsl:variable name="nickname" select="concat(' nickname=&quot;', wp:comment_author, '&quot;')" />
+         <xsl:variable name="username" select="concat(' username=&quot;', wp:comment_author_url, '&quot;')" />
+         <xsl:variable name="ip" select="concat(' ip=&quot;', wp:comment_author_IP, '&quot;')" />
+         <xsl:variable name="date" select="concat(' date=&quot;', wp:comment_date_gmt, '&quot;')" />
+         <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="txt">
+           <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>comment format=html</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$nickname"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$username"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$ip"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$date"/>
+           <xsl:text>subject=""</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:text>content="""</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="wp:comment_content"/>
+           <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+           <xsl:text>"""]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+         </xsl:result-document>
+       </xsl:template>
+       
+       <xsl:template match="category">
+         <xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:text>!tag "</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text>
+         <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
+       </xsl:template>
+       
+       </xsl:stylesheet>