From BlogWare to WordPress – Part Deux
Getting the code out of BlogWare and into WordPress was one thing. Getting everything else to work well has been something of a task. All my old URLs didn’t have any helpful keywords in them, so the 404 redirect script I found wasn’t working as effectively as it might have. Shayne pointed out that both the old URLs and new URLs have date information in them, so it would just take a little scripting before things would work easier for all those search engine visitors. I’ve got a new Google Sitemap submitted, FWIW.
I remembered the WP-Hackers, which we used to develop a Gada.be plugin – both standalone, and for the amazingly awesome Ultimate Tag Warrior. I posted my request, and received several satisfactory answers. Mark Jaquith responded with a single line of code that needed to be placed at the top of the .htaccess file. Easy. Done. Awesome.
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4 Comments
Aaron Brazell
May 20th, 2006
at 4:34am
Mark is the man, no doubt. I had to do something similar for a mass Nucleus migration to WordPress and I just redirected to the new domains instead of trying to do a mass lookup between two servers, two blog platforms, with two different permalink styles. Anyways, good luck.
Aaron
Marcel
May 20th, 2006
at 4:46pm
Hopefully you get everything sorted quickly.
Just a heads-up for you that the RSS feed no longer looks like this page should in Thunderbird. When I looked in the message source it’s missing the stylesheet. Oddly enough the last one to show up fine was ‘From BlogWare to WordPress’ :)
Library 2.0 :: Exporting from Blogware and Importing into Wordpress
August 3rd, 2006
at 8:30am
[...] and Importing into Wordpress by Jaime Chamorro on Fri 21 Jul 2006 10:24 AM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos Just a reminder, for anyone interested in migrating their blog fromBlogware, here is a post on how to Export your posts & comments from Blogware: http://library2.0.alablog.org/blog/_archives/2006/6/9/2019878.htmlIf you want to migrate your Blogware files over to Wordpress, there is a Wordpress Plugin that you install into your wordpress blog which helps import the Blogware comments & posts into Wordpress from the export file generated. Here is the link to the Wordpress Plugin download:http://chris.pirillo.com/download/blogware.zipThere are a number of interesting posts on migrating from Blogware to Wordpress here as well to guide you through the process: http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/05/19/from-blogware-to-wordpress-part-deux/Thanks,Jaime [...]
Pingwellesley.com :: Migrating your blog posts over to WordPress
September 25th, 2006
at 2:45pm
[...] posts over to WordPress by Michelle Gillett at 11:25AM (EDT) on September 25, 2006 | Permanent Link Here is quick How To on exporting your Blogware posts to your computer to upload to another blog.1. In the Pingwellesley Blog Control Panel, click on: Settings & Security, then: Publishing Defaults, as shown below: 2. Scroll to the bottom of the Publishing Defaults screen and click Import/Export. 3. In the Import/Export screen Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Generate Export button: 4. After 4 or 5 minutes, go back to the Import/Export screen and above the Generate Export button, you will see a Download button to download your post exports. The file will be called: blog_export.xml.gz, and will be downloaded to your desktop. 5. The new blog software you are using will have technical support/tutorials on Importing posts from other Blog Engines.** There is also Wordpress Plugin that you install into your wordpress blog which helps import the Blogware comments & posts into Wordpress from the export file generated. Here is the link to the Wordpress Plugin download:http://chris.pirillo.com/download/blogware.zipThere are a number of interesting posts on migrating from Blogware to Wordpress here as well to guide you through the process: http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/05/19/from-blogware-to-wordpress-part-deux/ If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me at jaime@ottergroup.com Thanks, Jaime Chamorro [...]