It would be great if you can help me.
Today I got over 500 (!) spam-comments in my blog. I know, that there exist some good spamfilters for WordPress, but I need a converter so I can change to WordPress :/
Please help.
Thx,
– Sys
I have the same problem :/ + about 300 posts in my boastmachine.
I am planing to migrate from boastmachine to wordpress as it have some nice features I need – gallery integration, forum integration which boastmachine is missing.
It would be superb if someone could help me out with converter from 2.9b or any larger version (3.0platinum, 3.1) to wordpress !!!
Boast uses PHP and MySQL to store the blog data, just like WP, so you could look at one of the existing importers for blogs that work with PHP and MySQL (such as b2) and alter the script to use the Boast database schema. AFAIK there is not one already written.
I know that they are using PHP and MySQL to store the blog data, but I am not really into mysql,php programming :/
I guess I will need to go not the easy way – do it mannualy…
What I have done:
1. export boastmachine’s bmc_posts table with phpMyAdmin’s export functionality in XML format
2. converted into mysql insert statements with a python script: http://repcsi.hu/teki/files/bo2wp.py
3. uploaded, then imported from the command line: mysql -u username –password=password database < wpin.sql
If your table’s name is not wp2_posts then you have to change that in the script. (and setup the encodings correctly) It’s a simple script, not a nice one, but it worked for me.
What if I do not have shell access?
How can I import my boastmachine data into wordpress?
and I am not able to export my sql to xml.
I can only convert them to cvs, excel or sql data formats..
