I’ve copied all the files and updated the URLs in the database.

The WP site shows the homepage just fine and I can view the wp-admin area too but all content pages from the WP site are showing the homepage from the root EE site keeping the WP permalinks in the address bar.

I’ve tried many different ways to write the RewriteCond rule in the root .htaccess and have updated the WP rules to include the new base path but always the same result and I’m not sure where the problem is.

Here’s the relevant part of the root EE .htaccess which now has a rule to ignore the subfolder (along with an alternative attempt which also didn’t work):

RewriteEngine On

# make EE ignore blog directory requests
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^blog.*
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/(.*)$

RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Here’s the new WP subfolder .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

Can anyone shed some light on what I’m doing wrong here?!

Does anyone know of a simple solution to help me with this?

I have a WP theme that I want to use… distributed by ThemeJunkie… the Resizable Theme… fits our needs beautifully.

But it’s not on the list of themes selectable from within Expression Engine.

QUESTION ONE: Will any WP theme work when installed through EE’s dashboard?
I’m guessing — probably not.

So, since EE has no trouble reading and writing to MySQL and either does WP…

QUESTION TWO: Am I better off using WordPress for all the wonderful themes and cosmetic properties – and use EE for all the heavy duty DB stuff?

Ideally, the WP theme could get installed within EE but then it seems I will lose all of the great (much better) WP GUI and navigation, plugins and add-ons.

QUESTION THREE: I’ve literally just started working with WP, and I know that we will use many PHP scripts — is there a widget that PHP drops into and just plain works — or am I hoping for too much?

QUESTION FOUR: Going the other way — would I anticipate trouble merging EE input fields or EE output — onto WP pages?

Sorry to be such a newbie – but I’ve always asked the “questions” before wasting weeks trying to push a rope.

Thanks in Advance!!!
Robert

So I install WP and long story short, it imports something like 55 entries and says “all done!” Well, it only got up to May 2010… I have entries all the way into December 2010 that it hasn’t found. I’ve checked the import files and the code is all there.

The issue may be with the import plugins… I believe those are new and mostly untested.

Here’s the blog I’m working on.

Any/all suggestions are helpful. I have 3 files to import and the largest is 1.5MB (under the 2MB limit).

I’ve grown tired of running my blog on Expression Engine, and I’d really appreciate learning of a way that I can convert the EE database to a WP one. I’ve done both Googling and searching through this forum to no avail.

Thanks in advance for any wisdom you can share (and let me know if I’d already have to have a WP install ready, or if it’s possible to do the database conversion first)

Any ideas? Is there an import error log?

How to troubleshoot? One thing I did try is to remove all the posts from the file but leaving one and I had the same problem.