diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..87ef12079 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +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](http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/?p=ikiwiki-wordpress-import.git) 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. It retains creation time of each post, so you can use Ikiwiki's --getctime to get the preserve creation times on checkout. + +WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned. \ No newline at end of file