ikiwiki/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn

[[!meta date="2007-10-05 06:59:14 +0000"]]

Use case: You want to move away from Wordpress to Ikiwiki as your blogging/website platform, but you want to retain your old posts.

[This](https://chris-lamb.co.uk/projects/ikiwiki-wordpress-import) is a simple tool that generates [git-fast-import](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html)-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file.

WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned.

The script uses the [BeautifulSoup][] module.

[BeautifulSoup]: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

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I include a modified version of this script. This version includes the ability to write \[[!tag foo]] directives, which the original intended, but didn't actually do.

-- [[users/simonraven]]

[[ikiwiki-wordpress-import]]

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Perhaps slightly insane, but here's an XSLT style sheet that handles my pages.  It's basic, but sufficient to get started.
Note that I had to break up the ikiwiki meta strings to post this.

-- JasonRiedy

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
	  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	  xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/">
	  
	<xsl:output method="text"/>
	<xsl:output method="text" name="txt"/>
	
	<xsl:variable name='newline'><xsl:text>
	</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
	
	<xsl:template match="channel">
	  <xsl:apply-templates select="item[wp:post_type = 'post']"/>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="item">
	  <xsl:variable name="idnum" select="format-number(wp:post_id,'0000')" />
	  <xsl:variable name="basename"
			select="concat('wp-posts/post-',$idnum)" />
	  <xsl:variable name="filename"
			select="concat($basename, '.html')" />
	  <xsl:text>Creating </xsl:text>
	  <xsl:value-of select="concat($filename, $newline)" />
	  <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="txt">
	    <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta title="</xsl:text>
	    <xsl:value-of select="replace(title, '&quot;', '&amp;ldquo;')"/>
	    <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta date="</xsl:text>
	    <xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
	    <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>meta updated="</xsl:text>
	    <xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
	    <xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="content:encoded"/>
	    <xsl:text>
	
	</xsl:text>
	    <xsl:apply-templates select="category[@domain='tag' and not(@nicename)]">
	      <xsl:sort select="name()"/>
	    </xsl:apply-templates>
	  </xsl:result-document>
	  <xsl:apply-templates select="wp:comment">
	    <xsl:sort select="date"/>
	    <xsl:with-param name="basename">$basename</xsl:with-param>
	  </xsl:apply-templates>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="wp:comment">
	  <xsl:param name="basename"/>
	  <xsl:variable name="cnum" select="format-number(wp:comment_id, '000')" />
	  <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat($basename, '/comment_', $cnum, '._comment')"/>
	  <xsl:variable name="nickname" select="concat(' nickname=&quot;', wp:comment_author, '&quot;')" />
	  <xsl:variable name="username" select="concat(' username=&quot;', wp:comment_author_url, '&quot;')" />
	  <xsl:variable name="ip" select="concat(' ip=&quot;', wp:comment_author_IP, '&quot;')" />
	  <xsl:variable name="date" select="concat(' date=&quot;', wp:comment_date_gmt, '&quot;')" />
	  <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="txt">
	    <xsl:text>[[</xsl:text><xsl:text>comment format=html</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$nickname"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$username"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$ip"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$date"/>
	    <xsl:text>subject=""</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:text>content="""</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="wp:comment_content"/>
	    <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	    <xsl:text>"""]]</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	  </xsl:result-document>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match="category">
	  <xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:text>[</xsl:text><xsl:text>!tag "</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>"]]</xsl:text>
	  <xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
	</xsl:template>
	
	</xsl:stylesheet>