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#1 2009-12-18 14:11:17
- dressedinvalue
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- From: Louisville, KY
- Registered: 2008-12-31
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WordPress Importer (WP > TXP) major problems
I managed to use the built-in WordPress importer to get all my stuff into Textpattern, but noticed some pretty major problems that need to be addressed:
1. Since WP saves all drafts of an article, TXP imports ALL drafts! Now there are many, many versions of each article after importing.
2. If I were to write an article in WP dated 02 Jan 2009 and had updated it 18 Dec 2009, after importing it TXP now thinks that the published date is 18 Dec 2009. This creates a rather improper order of articles.
Anyone know of other solutions?
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Re: WordPress Importer (WP > TXP) major problems
Ricky, the import script is bit old and really simple. It does what it promises but that’s it.
1. Since WP saves all drafts of an article, TXP imports ALL drafts! Now there are many, many versions of each article after importing.
TXP doesn’t have versioning, thus multiple independed drafts. If you don’t like the extra drafts, you can delete them.
If I were to write an article in WP dated 02 Jan 2009 and had updated it 18 Dec 2009, after importing it TXP now thinks that the published date is 18 Dec 2009. This creates a rather improper order of articles.
If WP’s post_date column doesn’t contain article dates, edit the query. Around line 152 @ include/import/import_wp.php from p.post_date as Posted, to whatever contains the date.
Last edited by Gocom (2009-12-18 14:53:06)
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