Comments on: Converting a Blog From Drupal to WordPress

By: yaph

yaph — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:05:56 +0000

1000 redirect in yout .htaccess file doesn’t sound like a good idea. Is WordPress’s alias system not flexible enough to have kept them?

By: yaph

yaph — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:05:00 +0000

1000 redirect in yout .htaccess file doesn’t sound like a good idea. Is WordPress’s alias system not flexible enough to have kept them?

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:57:45 +0000

@Guilherme – Useful stuff

@cazare – Good idea

@Billy – Drupal is infinitely useful but probably more than anyone needs for just a blog

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:57:00 +0000

@Guilherme – Useful stuff

@cazare – Good idea

@Billy – Drupal is infinitely useful but probably more than anyone needs for just a blog

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:52:39 +0000

WordPress is definitely the better platform for blogging. However, I find myself diving deeper into Drupal depending on the content needs. There seems to be more flexibility with Drupal if website needs to be more than just a blog.

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:52:00 +0000

By: cazare litoral

cazare litoral — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:38:06 +0000

very useful post and I bookmarked for future reference
I will surely need it sometime

By: cazare litoral

cazare litoral — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:38:00 +0000

very useful post and I bookmarked for future reference
I will surely need it sometime

By: Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor

Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:30:19 +0000

You can start here

It is not a relate of my migration specifically, but is the technique to do it.

Of course, in order to do that I already was hosting blogger on my own domain.

For those who don’t know how it works: you can set up your blogger account to log to your server via FTP and drop the processed .html files there, but you handle your blog via the blogger site.

Fully hosted wordpress is all dynamic, so there are no such things as .html pages, but if you use the same post slug you used on blogger, the rule I show you remove the .html from the address.

A simpler solution could be ending all post slugs to end in .html. (I never tried this, but could work)

By: Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor

Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:30:00 +0000

You can start here

It is not a relate of my migration specifically, but is the technique to do it.

Of course, in order to do that I already was hosting blogger on my own domain.

For those who don’t know how it works: you can set up your blogger account to log to your server via FTP and drop the processed .html files there, but you handle your blog via the blogger site.

Fully hosted wordpress is all dynamic, so there are no such things as .html pages, but if you use the same post slug you used on blogger, the rule I show you remove the .html from the address.

A simpler solution could be ending all post slugs to end in .html. (I never tried this, but could work)

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:18:53 +0000

@Jack – I try to avoid “manually” wherever possible

@raj – Ooh, typepad *shudder*

@Guilherme – I wouldn’t know where to start!

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:18:00 +0000

@Jack – I try to avoid “manually” wherever possible

@raj – Ooh, typepad *shudder*

@Guilherme – I wouldn’t know where to start!

By: Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor

Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:51:37 +0000

I faced the same problem when I moved from Blogger to Wordpress.

By: Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor

Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:51:00 +0000

I faced the same problem when I moved from Blogger to WordPress.

By: raj

raj — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:42:40 +0000

Yikes. Okay, you solved what had to be done. I am working on two special redirect plugins for WP because I have 6 sites on Typepad that I need to move WP. There are over 400 posts, and there’s no way I’m going to do this manually.

By: raj

raj — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:42:00 +0000

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:43:46 +0000

Good idea…I do it manually

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:43:00 +0000

Good idea…I do it manually

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:35:26 +0000

Each URL has it’s own line in the .htaccess, we exported a list using the MySQL database, there are about 1000 of them

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:35:00 +0000

Each URL has it’s own line in the .htaccess, we exported a list using the MySQL database, there are about 1000 of them