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I need an import script for TextPattern

I've been asked to convert a site from TextPattern to WordPress (TextPattern is mostly dead). I tried to import the database using the built-in import script that WordPress makes available. Categories and images did not import correctly. I'm curious if anyone else has ever imported TextPattern to WordPress? How did you handle it? Are there any plugins out there that handle this? Custom scripts?

Jake Jackson | 12/17/09 at 5:15pm | Edit

categories, data formats, images, importing, imports, other cmses, textpattern

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12/17/09
6:02pm
Dan Davies says:
I've not seen any third party scripts for quite some time now.

This guide use to be pretty good: http://alexbrie.net/dev/tutorials/1504/how-to-import-textpattern-into-wordpress/ - but because of the changes to WordPress, it may not be hugely relevant anymore.
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12/17/09
10:28pm
Ron Rennick says:
I'm fairly sure the trip with importing from TextPattern is to create the Authors & categories in WordPress before you import. I haven't done it since WP 2.6, so this answer may be a bit out of date as well.
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12/19/09
8:04pm
Max says:
There are not relevant resources at this time on the web. Before writing your own script, you could try a little time travel :)

Download Wordpress 2.1 from here:
http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

and then follow the instructions here:
http://alexbrie.net/dev/tutorials/1504/how-to-import-textpattern-into-wordpress/

Then gradually upgrade Wordpress and see what happen.

If you have troubles, you could try to downgrade Textpattern to the version used in that article (4.0.4). Some info here:

http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Downgrading_to_an_Older_%28Stable%29_Release

Backup your data first ;)
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12/18/09
1:40pm
Dan Davies says:
Really nice out-of-the-box idea, Max :)