Moving from 8pixel’s Simpleblog to WordPress

  • epsteinllewellyn

    (@epsteinllewellyn)


    18 years ago

    (I mention 8pixel because there are a few “Simpleblogs” out there.)

    I did a search and did not find anything on Simpleblog, so here goes. This should be remarkably easy for you who know how to do it.

    I have to import into WordPress only a very few items from the Simpleblog Access database. These are:

    Simpleblog –> WordPress

    id –> id
    b_headline –> post_title
    b_content –> post_content
    b_author –> post_author

    The only other problems appear to be that the Simpleblog date format does not line up with the format of Word Press’ post_date. Simpleblog has a number of date fields:
    b_date (numeric, looks like Julian format?)
    b_year
    b_month
    b_time

    Finally, Simpleblog uses a different scheme for noting if the post is published or not, but I figure I can just import all the posts and then set them all to published status in WordPress globally… right?

    I’m new to MySQL, but learning fast. I suspect this should be some very simple import statements.

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    It’s never as easy as you think it will be. WP doesn’t just have that posts table. There’s also, for instance, post2cats.

    Does SimpleBlog offer RSS feeds? WP has an RSS importer that might be a bit more straightforward.

    Thread Starter epsteinllewellyn

    (@epsteinllewellyn)

    The RSS importer is not working… not sure why. Perhaps it is a problem with Simpleblog’s RSS code.

    When I import with it, all I get is a single blog entry imported, with no content and a headline that reads this:

    ” & Rs(”b_headline”) & “

    Now Simpleblog’s RSS feed file links to two include files; either leaving those references in, or deleting them, seems to have no effect.

    Ideas?

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