X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/53b1c6f559c1d09fbdbc28c8e4d5090dd455cd26..14e1cccf1222232bd890c9eff1ea2c7fb0804b4f:/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn index 59330caa4..af8e4005d 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ 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 --getctime 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. +The script uses the [BeautifulSoup][] module. + +[BeautifulSoup]: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ + ----- 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.