Fix Textpattern import

Hmm, that’s odd. I migrated my web design site https://webjones.org from TextPattern last weekend using the import-textpattern.php file that shipped with WP 1.5.2 (whatever the version was right before this last big upgrade). And I had been using TextPattern 1.0rc1. The only problem I had was in my new WP install, I had forgotten to set up my categories, so they all got dumped into “General,” but this was good because it forced me to clean up a bit. All the posts and comments came over just fine, but I noticed that the dates were off quite a bit. But since I was cleaning house anyway, I just fixed each one of those as I went.

I wouldn’t mind knowing why the dates were off kilter in the import, tho.

jonimueller, mabye I need to upgrade WP and get the latest import-textpattern.php file? I am running 1.5.1.3 version.

I just tried importing posts from 4.0.1 Textpattern to 1.5.2 and it does not work.

Yeah, the last time I tried it kept screwing up my install, so I finally quit and just started creating new content going forward. As a last recourse, if I ever get the time, I’ll manually move the content using PHP MyAdmin…but it’d sure be nice if they could fix the import.

I am in the same situation : I want to jump to WP from 4.0.1 Txp version… Seems the script doesn’t work for this ( see comments above). Can we hope to have an update of the script?

I wrote this for TXP 1.x, so I’m not at all surprised that it’s broken now. The good news is that there’s a new import script in the WP 2.0 beta… which, if I’m not mistaken, you can grab from the nightly build page.

Anyone having success importing from Textpattern 4.0.3 into WordPress 2.0.1? The included importer doesn’t seem to work and sillybean’s link goes to a blank page.

Thanks!

I got this to work by first moving my Textpattern tables into the WordPress database, then importing. Also, I used the import script from Technosailor; not sure if this made a difference or not.

I’d like to move textpattern posts to my wordpress blog, but the import feature is not working. Do I need to move the tp tables to the wordpress database? If so, how can I do this? Please help. Thanks.

How do I import my TXP tables into WP?

The TXP import seems to only half work. It ‘times out ‘when importing posts with only some posts being imported with a weird date order applied.

Thanks!