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

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:24:31 +0000

Nope; I never moved forums. Only the blog.

By: eralper

eralper — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:45:59 +0000

Hello Rob,
Actually I’m thinking of moving to a more flexible CMS application. But sharing the same reasons like being a .NET developer for years, working with Microsoft technologies I’m staying away from WordPress.
Unfortunately the difference is too much. But I think of moving the forum, galleries, files sections too besides moving blogs and blog posts.
Did you have an experience moving CS Forums to any other CMS?

By: Source and Code » Blog Archive » Importing other blog content to WordPress

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:07:06 +0000

[...] Kavinda’s BlogML to WordPress import module (ZIP file link), originally created by Rob Walling and Aaron [...]

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

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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.