[pLog-svn] WP importer?

[Oscar Renalias]

I suppose you'll have to convert the subcategories to a normal flat structure.

But I don't know how WP handles tags or how it uses them.

On 7/11/06, Jon Daley <plogworld at jon.limedaley.com> wrote:
>         I got the guy's database, and started to take a look at it.
> WP has sub-categories, so I guess I can't do anything with that.
>
>         I am not sure what to do with the wp_tags table, is that
> automatically generated, or did he manually create his tags?
>
>         Everything else doesn't look too bad. Their resources are just
> uploaded to a directory, so it is a simple copy-and-paste for that.
>
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jon Daley wrote:
>
> >       I don't care about the post id, he has custom urls in wordpress as
> > well.
> >
> > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Mark Wu wrote:
> >
> >> If  he doesn't need to keep the original postId, I think it is easy. My
> >> import/export plugin can handle mt/rss format this moment.
> >>
> >> But, if he want to keep the original postId, then, it is really impossible.
> >> So, it really depends his original url format.
> >>
> >> If he us slug instead of postId, then,.... It should be easy to port to LT.
> >>
> >> Current restriction:
> >>
> >> MT format: can handle, post, comment, trackback
> >> RSS format: post only.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
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> >>> [mailto:plog-svn-bounces at devel.lifetype.net] On Behalf Of Jon Daley
> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 9:16 AM
> >>> To: LifeType SVN
> >>> Subject: [pLog-svn] WP importer?
> >>>
> >>>     There has been various talk on the forums about
> >>> importers.  The blog.ch guys have a wordpress blog
> >>> (blog.ch/blog), and I would rather host everything on LT.
> >>> Their URLs seem easy enough to be handled with the custom URLs.
> >>>     How hard would it be to import the posts and comments?
> >>> I am not sure what other stuff I would need to worry about.
> >>>
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