Comments on: A Tale of Moving Blog Engines: Community Server to WordPress

By: Backing up your Wordpress blog

Backing up your Wordpress blog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:36:53 +0000

[...] http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2007/10/05/a-tale-of-moving-blog-engines-community-server-to-wordpress/... [...]

By: Matt Plichta

Matt Plichta — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:05:58 +0000

The link to Kristopher Cargile’s tool (comment #18) is dead. Does anybody have a working link or source? Please let me know: matt dot plichta at sgandco dot com

By: How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress at Space Ninja

How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress at Space Ninja — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:15:51 +0000

[...] in October 2007, Rob Walling wrote a post about switching from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress. He updated Aaron’s [...]

By: How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress - Pop Art Blog

How to Convert from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress - Pop Art Blog — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:31:09 +0000

[...] in October 2007, Rob Walling wrote a post about switching from Community Server 2007 to Wordpress. He updated Aaron’s [...]

By: Abandoning BlogEngine.NET :-( « Read Bits

Abandoning BlogEngine.NET :-( « Read Bits — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:59:36 +0000

[...] use that plug-in). Fortunately, Aaron Lerch wrote a PHP plug-in for importing BlogML. Rob Walling posted his notes on Aaron’s [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:14:22 +0000

Hi Kristopher,
Thanks for your response. My site that was formerly running on Subtext is now on Drupal. But my Community Server site still needs to be converted. I downloaded your tool and I will check it out. Would you be interested in expanding it to Drupal (as a paid consulting project)? The contact form on your site doesn’t seem to be working, so I can’t contact you directly.
Dave

By: Kristopher Cargile

Kristopher Cargile — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:31:20 +0000

Dave,

I’m not very familiar with Drupal and how to get data into it, but I can get you a copy of the SQL script I created for the CS-WP tool. Should get you half way there anyhow. Contact me through my site and I’ll send it along…

-klc

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:06:55 +0000

I have a blog running on Subtext and one on Community Server 2007. I want to move them both to Drupal. So far, I’m having trouble finding any tools to help with this.

By: Migrating from DasBlog to WordPress

Migrating from DasBlog to WordPress — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:38:31 +0000

[...] Imported data to WordPress: Aaron lerch had done all the hard work by creating the import module for WordPress for BlogML. I downloaded its updated version that had been modified to work with WordPress 2.3 when Rob Walling migrated from Community Server to WordPress. [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:19:12 +0000

@Perry – I really like DreamHost. They have tons of one-click installs (including WordPress), Subversion hosting is included, unlimited domain hosting, and a bunch of other great stuff for around $10/month. Use my affiliate link if you sign-up:

http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?183150

Also, if you’re migrating from CS to Wordpress also check out (the previous commenter) Kristopher’s tool at:

http://www.bettersoftwarenow.com/2008/08/02/migrating-community-server-to-wordpress/

By: Perry

Perry — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:15:10 +0000

Hi, I’ve been toying with moving off of CS and onto Wordpress for a long time…but my blog has hundreds of posts and I wonder if I should just scrap it all…which would suck. Your post has given me something to fiddle with for a few days. Thanks for the great post. Any advice for a hosting provider?

By: Kristopher Cargile

Kristopher Cargile — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:08:22 +0000

I’ve been working on a WordPress importer to handle exactly this situation. I’ve posted the first release, along with some notes about the general CS to WP migration process here:

http://www.bettersoftwarenow.com/2008/08/02/migrating-community-server-to-wordpress/

-k

||| Kristopher Cargile
||| http://www.bettersoftwarenow.com

By: Al Pascual

Al Pascual — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:55:55 +0000

I created a simple tool to be able to move your blog.

By: Nils Kaczenski

Nils Kaczenski — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:57:26 +0000

Rob,

Perhaps you remember me. Some weeks ago I sent you a mail related to this article. I was just planning to move my CS 2007.1-based web site to WordPress and your article was so promising! However, I could not get this BlogML plugin for CS to work (as it turned out I was not the only one who failed). What’s more, the BlogML maintainers were not able to even understand my issues.

But I did find a solution: WordPress supports a BlogML-like technique out of the box, so all I had to do was to generate a matching XML file from my CS content with a small script. Fortunately I had a full backup copy of the database and so I could work it out on my local machine. Some fix-ups to the XML (replacing poison characters and so on), and there it went – more than 200 articles from 30+ authors imported in less than two minutes. Great!

So if any of your readers suffers from the same issues – perhaps they can use the result of my work which is a tiny VBScript that reads the CS db and makes WordPress XML (WXR) out of it. If so – drop me a line at Nils at kaczenski dot de.

Thanks, Nils

By: Tale of Moving Blog Engines from Community Server to WordPress - Dave Burke's Community Server Bits

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:53:44 +0000

[...] a second interesting narrative about a journey away from Community Server, read Rob Wallings's "Tale of Moving Blog Engines from Community Server to WordPress." I understand everything Rob was saying here, especially about community, but geez, using [...]

By: Community Server Byte for October 13, 2007 - Dave Burke

Community Server Byte for October 13, 2007 - Dave Burke — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:42:50 +0000

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:25:26 +0000

Jon – I was using the HTML interface because the version of CS I was using wouldn’t interface with LiveWriter or BlogJet (or at least, I wasn’t able to get them to work). I also post a lot from different computers, so I don’t want to be tied to a desktop app.

I have heard of and evaluated SubText. I liked it a lot, but it doesn’t have the massive number of plugins of a platform like WordPress. Pretty much anything I’ve thought of adding to WP is already built as a plugin (e.g., show related posts, rate a post, AJAX comments, threaded comments and several others I’ll be adding over the next several weeks).

Thanks for the suggestions – definitely worth looking at.

By: Jon Galloway

Jon Galloway — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:32:38 +0000

Why edit posts in an HTML interface when blog posting clients as good as Windows Live Writer are available?

Had you heard of the SubText blog engine? My first install took me less than 30 minutes. It’s really simple to set up, supports BlogML import / export, etc. Not nearly as full featured as CS, but it’s pretty good for a simple blog setup.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:52:21 +0000

Sorry to hear that you’ve had so much trouble with CS. Our new product, Graffiti, should really alleviate a lot of these types of issues as it is built with single user blogs in mind.

This will give the Wordpress lovers a .NET powered option in the near future

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:20:11 +0000

Pete – You received multiple versions of the same posts because the RSS feed refreshed from scratch and some readers aren’t able to properly resolve this. Hopefully this has gone away by now.