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diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ea82b862 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +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. + +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. + +-- [[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, '"', '&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_', $cnum, '._comment')"/> + <xsl:variable name="nickname" select="concat(' nickname="', wp:comment_author, '"')" /> + <xsl:variable name="username" select="concat(' username="', wp:comment_author_url, '"')" /> + <xsl:variable name="ip" select="concat(' ip="', wp:comment_author_IP, '"')" /> + <xsl:variable name="date" select="concat(' date="', wp:comment_date_gmt, '"')" /> + <xsl:result-document href="{$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> |