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1. edavis
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I created a new Wordpress import script for migrating from Blosxom. This script will import Blosxom posts and comments (i.e. writeback and writeback_plus).

   http://www.insanum.com/computers/software/wp_blosxom_import.html

2. macmanx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Excellent. I've added it to the Codex list.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_from_other_blogging_software#Blosxom

3. jpstacey
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've got a Blosxom plugin together that handles a few extras for this conversion method:

   * Permits multiple categories
   * Prevents whitespace in Blosxom posts from becoming br tags and hence breaking e.g. a tags that have line-wrapped
   * De-escapes entities in the RSS feed titles: these were coming through to WordPress as literal e.g. & amp;#xf6;

   Is there anywhere I can share it?

   In addition, I notice that the category import for this code isn't perfect: it doesn't increment category_count, so categories don't appear until any one post in that category is saved (and suddenly category_count appears for all categories attached to that post).

   Any chance of a fix? Is this a WP version thing?

4. dirkhh
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I looked at this and it didn't really work for my blog. Too much of the formatting didn't work out the way I wanted :-)

   Instead I wrote a perl script that filled the mysql database directly (php is not a language I enjoy). While the script makes a bunch of assumptions about your blog it should be easy enough to extend.

   A description of the process and the script can be found on my blog.

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