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.
A while back we had a discussion @ FreakScene.net about the fantastic documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke. The film by Dave Markey featured many of the brilliant artists that made the soundtracks of many peoples lives. Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Babes in Toyland & Gumball. We were all just very disapointed that the only format this film is available in is VHS. I found that he posted on his site about it being re-released on DVD with some new footage included but even after putting together all the work, it has been (AND STILL IS) sitting in the void within the halls of Universal Records. I contacted David & Steve Shelly (Sonic Youth) about that and neither one of them new why it this was the case either.
I figured the least I could do was try to raise some awareness about this because it would suck to have this film fade away to nothing but a memory so. Thus the myspace.com/theyearpunkbroke page was born. It picked up a little press and gained shows that I am not alone in this. As I no don’t have time to properly mange it any more, I have given the profiles ownership to David and hopefully, we will see some updates soon.
If you want to help, add them to your friends and let Universal know that you want to see it released!
Just posting for my memories (a late night ramble that may not make much sense when I read it later…..)
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