Comments on: WordPress to Drupal: a luta continua

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:58:16 +0000

At long last, I had the chance to try out Gerd’s advice. And what do you know — the blog imported flawlessly. Categories were imported into the taxonomy, comments were imported into comments… very nicely done.

One suggestion: WordPress allows HTML tags in titles, while Drupal frowns on it. If the script could be amended to strip them out, that would be a handy enhancement.

By: Gerd Riesselmann

Gerd Riesselmann — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:13:11 +0000

The error you get is because of the way you defined your clean urls, I guess. Note that the table url_alias defines the field dst (destination) as beeing unique.

May it be you have two entries on March 24, 2004, so the script tries to create two alias with the same destination?

Try to remove the index on this field during import and bring the script up again. Fix any issues by hand and enable the index afterwards.

I’m looking forward to hear more of your experiences with moving from WordPress to Drupal, since I’m in the same process right now.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:56 +0000

Alex reports seeing a code snippet along those lines; I’ll see if she can remember where.

I use Bloglines for the blogroll here, but

a) it requires every link to have an RSS feed, and

b) if Bloglines is slow, so is this page. Which bites.

By: Evan Leeson

Evan Leeson — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:27:24 +0000

One thing that will bug you is implementing a blogroll. Let me know if you find a good solution (other than ASP). I’m sure something is coming from the Druniverse, but it hasn’t arrived yet.