Monday, January 16, 2006
Exporting content from Mambo to Wordpress
I've been tasked with exporting the 150 or so articles at TomorrowToday.biz into the blog. No problem, right?! Yes, I could copy them by hand. Or go into the database and write a script to export/import them. Or I could use Wordpress's feed import function and import them from a TomorrowToday news feed.
The problem is the default news feed for Mambo only lists front page items. Luckily there's a component which makes news feeds of categories. It's called RSS XT (you'll need to install the component AND the module). To get it working you'll also need to create a folder with write permissions on the site root folder called "rss" and also put some configuration data into the parameters of the RSS XT module. My parameters I used are:
show=2.0
cat = Bright Young Things|Innovation UnManagement
A quick search on the Wordpress Codex revealed this: a script to import into Wordpress from Mambo. Maybe a better idea! But running it doesn't yield the results I need. It doesn't do author names or date created/modified or post slugs and doesn't deal with intro/extended text well. It also doesn't import comments from Ako Comment. But otherwise it's a pretty good script - it just requires some tweaking. So I'm going to tweak it and post the results (hooray for GPL'd software!).
The problem is the default news feed for Mambo only lists front page items. Luckily there's a component which makes news feeds of categories. It's called RSS XT (you'll need to install the component AND the module). To get it working you'll also need to create a folder with write permissions on the site root folder called "rss" and also put some configuration data into the parameters of the RSS XT module. My parameters I used are:
show=2.0
cat = Bright Young Things|Innovation UnManagement
A quick search on the Wordpress Codex revealed this: a script to import into Wordpress from Mambo. Maybe a better idea! But running it doesn't yield the results I need. It doesn't do author names or date created/modified or post slugs and doesn't deal with intro/extended text well. It also doesn't import comments from Ako Comment. But otherwise it's a pretty good script - it just requires some tweaking. So I'm going to tweak it and post the results (hooray for GPL'd software!).
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