Get content from another site to wordpress.

It might be. What is the site built in?

Its a custom built CMS made from scratch.

Its called Nepal and is an Icelandic company that made it.

I dont know much else about it ….
their page extensions are .asp and .aspx

It would be very helpful if I could make wordpress get all the pages of the old site into posts and pages inside wordpress.

[ No bumping please. ]

First as I understand it .asp and .aspx are specific to Windows OS. So I would think even if you can covert you “might” need to have the WP installed on hosting with Windows – you could ask your hosting company. And generally a Windows server is a little more costly. .ASP is just the framework and their could be other languages behind it, such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Check this site to see if any help there: https://www.asp.net/ Some good links here (Beyond me): https://forums.asp.net/t/1794388.aspx?converting+aspx+to+asp+or+php
“It would be very helpful if I could make wordpress get all the pages of the old site into posts and pages inside wordpress.” Not sure this is possible – perhaps some compiling or special program written “might” be able to do this, very doubtful and looks like copy/paste will become your friend. TIP: Name the new WP pages the same as the .asp pages and then you will need to redirect all your .asp pages to the new WP pages so client doesn’t lose any “juice”. Sorry I could not be more helpful and good luck!

in my search for this I can see that there are a number of options.. But I cant find one that suits me….

For example , i could use Web2Disk to download all the content to my computer , then integrate it with an xml generator, and make wordpress then read the xml file and import the old data into posts and pages…

But i was just wondering if there is another way for me to do this ?

there are also some web scrapers around that copy data …

I dont understand why nobody here has any knowledge about this ..
With all these webdevelopers and all …

In my opinion, you could follow this approach (simplified steps)

1) Download all the images (they need to be imported as Media to WordPress)
2) Download the database (atleast the content & user tables)
3) Images will go into the wp-content/uploads folder
4) Map data to columns in WP database

If you want to discuss further, let me know.

Hi Ramesh

Thanks for your reply

interesting approach you have suggested.
If you have another approach to this , i′d love to hear it. Because i′d rather not talk with this unpleasant webdeveloper that hosts the old site.
He′s like the devil… And when he finds out that im about to take his biggest client away from him , he will be pretty pissed off. And I fear that he will try his best to make my work undoable…

But if you dont have any other aproach to this , then im willing to try this out.
im not an expert in sql , so i′d have to have some idea what im getting into.

I understand what you are suggesting , but the steps are not clear for me.

I dont have to worry about the user tables, since I think there is only a few users that have access to this site.

would I have to import the old DB to wordpress DB
and then , somehow change the data to posts and pages ?

Looking forward in hearing from you.

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback.

I am no expert myself, but given the choice between creating a WordPress Import XML and a SQL/data approach, I would choose the latter.

I think once you have the database from the existing site, consult the WP Database description (https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Database_Description) and map tables & columns. (Not saying it would be easy/straightforward, but it is the approach I would take)

Usually WP uploads are classified by year & month. You could make your life simple by making all images/uploads go to a single folder (It is an option in WordPress > Media menu). This will let you upload all images directly to the wp-content/uploads folder.

Load the SQL to your database.

Run a plugin like Regenerate Thumbnails to have the media properly re-sized.

Check for 404 errors and fix them as and when you see them.

If you have a link to the current site, I can probably give you more pointers. For now, my suggestions are based on assumptions (which might be wrong)

Cheers,
Ramesh

Hi Ramesh

Thanks for the update and advise.
Hands down , the best support ive had from www.ads-software.com ever ??

I havent got the chance to test the SQL theory out. But it sound alot easier than the xml approach.

If you have any suggestions or advice on the matter, i′d love to hear it.
Any SQL experts you know or some company that you think would be able to do such a proceedure.

Im going to test the mapping.

Its only the news , and one other category that needs the migration.

Again, thanks alot for your input, help and advice.
Im very thankful for your ideas and help.

Hi,

Our partner has developed Training Course Extranet Extension that should give external systems a method for extracting Course listings from their site to others.The external interface of the extension is a single ASP script located in a publicly accessible on hosted web site: fetchData.asp.
The script handles a series of arguments passed to it through a standard HTTP GET request.Having established the required data fields from the required source table, the script outputs (returns) the data as a tab delimited text stream.There are four tables available for download. Therefore, to take a full data snapshot, fourconsecutive script calls will need to be made.

What plugin could you recommend to use to get data to our WordPress site and to show data in tables?

Thanks