Did I put this question in the right place or is there a better category?
I am going to export en existing WordPress site and then compare that export to what I have for the scoop site backup. From that I’m thinking I’ll manipulate the old data into something similar to the WordPress export… Via a perl script or something
Does that sound like a reasonable approach?
I have a script for this now that i’m finalizing… i’ll post it on my blog and link to it here. It works well. Converts Scoop database authors, tags, posts, and comments into the WordPress extended RSS format (WXR).
If someone needed it now i could send you the current script, just let me know here. It’s a php script.
The only problem i’m having now is that when i create multiple files (split because of large file size), only the first import is putting authors on the comments… but if you change the memory and file size parameters as mentioned here, it loads a very large (400M+) file successfully.
mpicknell, I know someone who is looking for this. You can contact me through the link on my profile.
I couldn’t find a link on your profile, but i’ve been meaning to put this up on my blog… i’ll do that tonight and send you the link so you can get it.
Sorry, i didn’t get to it last night but i did tonight…
Here’s a link to a writeup i did on it:
http://mpickell.com/blog/2012/04/06/convert-an-old-scoop-cms-to-wordpress/
One things this does not do is pull diaries as post-type “page”. I believe it pulls them as normal posts. that could be an improvement if someone needs it.