Made some minor adjustments to the Joomla -> Wordpress Conversion tool and tested against Wordpress 2.6.x
I have also come to the conclusion that I need to start pulling myself out of the projects and write some more up here. More on that later…. Maybe.
In working with a recent client project, I was tasked with porting a site from Joomla over to Wordpress 2.5.x. My first instinct is to look at the table structures, write the sql and be done with it but in the sake of saving time, I did a quick search to see what other people have done in this respect.
In my search, I found that Rodney Blevins (www.blevins.nl/missiontech) created a wizard to do the same thing for a Mambo to Wordpress conversion. The script works fine on older versions of Wordpress but with the release of Wordpress 2.5, the table structure changed. With some minor tweaking, I made the script work for the later releases of Wordpress and added a simple sprintf to do the table prefix renames for the Mambo/Joomla tables.
I don’t doubt that I’ll need it again and can only assume that someone else will as well so enjoy. It is not without room for improvement but it will get you own your way.
** I have tested this on a few different scenerios but you should use at your own risk (as low as it is) and backup everything in your wordpress install before doing this!
If you don’t know how to do this, have someone to help you.
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