I know this is a bit off-topic, but I’m looking for a script for exporting data from WordPress to a format EE can import (MovableType e.g.).

Eric Pierce’s WPexport plugin seems to be gone: http://epierce.blog.usf.edu/?p=15

So what is the best way to migrate data from WordPress to ExpressionEngine?

I am in the same boat, and would love to know the answer to this question.

Ok, let’s wait if anybody can answer this question. This is the main thing that keeps me from updating my blog to ExpressionEngine, which looks very promising…

Isn’t that something that you should be asking on the WP forums? Anyway, you can still get the plugin here.

After some Googling, I found this as an alternative solution:

WP-MT 1.2 Script

In a nutshell: 1) download the script, 2) place the script in your WP installation, 3) run the script via your server/browser, 4) resulting text page can be used to import into MT or EE.

I tried it and after some tweaking of the resulting text file, I was able to import it into my fresh EE installation! Happy day! :)

Perhaps a moderator can bump this thread to the appropriate place. :) I found this thread via Google, and just responded.

Good luck!

You can find information on how to migrate to EE from Wordpress over at the EE Wiki: Migrating to EE

Have others tried this?Did it work for you?

We have had massive issues migrating from WP to EE and have one site left, hopefully there is an easier solution by now.

Dabbledo, I’ve done the WP to EE migration a number of times as laid out by the Wiki and it’s worked every time. Have you tried it the way that the EE Wiki lays out?

Sock Puppet - 01 May 2008 03:32 PM

Isn’t that something that you should be asking on the WP forums? Anyway, you can still get the plugin here.

I think EllisLab should be interested in making it as comfortable as possible for WP users to switch to EE. WP users are getting more and more uncomfortable with their software of choice. These times are a great opportunity to let the EE community grow.

A WXR importer would be highly appreciated. But we’ll see what EE 2.0 will have inside.

I agree, it seems extremely beneficial for EE to make this a much easier process. I know some people have had no problem, but we had to go through 3 developers and a year of work to get 4/5 sites complete. Since we have been on EE things have been great but it was not fun (and we still have one site left).

If someone is up for a challenge, but let me know.

I am not sure this is something very high on their agenda. The existing solutions seem to work well enough for most people, and I somehow think that few WP users would switch to the Personal or Commercial versions (being used to free as in beer software), so there is probably even little money to be made that way. Having said that, import via the MT file format seems to work rather well, you only need to get your data into that format. That, I feel, is really the responsibility of the end user, though. YMMV.

The WP plugins I found didn’t work for me either (none supports exporting tags, anyway, some not even categories).

MT 4 has an import feature for the WP XML-export format but that also didn’t seem to work at all in my case.

Finally I successfully took the “blogger-approach” of just creating a template that outputs a MT-export file.
Like this one.

Another advantage is that it can be easily customised to your needs and since the EE-import script even supports additional fields I could export the tags as well.

@ Rareyman

You wrote this:

After some Googling, I found this as an alternative solution:

Good luck!

I can’t seem to find the WP-MT script. Do you or anyone else have any recommendations for a current solution to move Blogger to EE?

I have checked the other forum postings and I seem to find material that is dated.

If Wordpress’ native export is to an XML file format, you could use Andrew Weaver’s great XMLGrab plugin: XMLGrab here and skip the whole WP->MT process.

rareyman - 01 May 2008 07:37 PM

After some Googling, I found this as an alternative solution:

WP-MT 1.2 Script

In a nutshell: 1) download the script, 2) place the script in your WP installation, 3) run the script via your server/browser, 4) resulting text page can be used to import into MT or EE.

I tried it and after some tweaking of the resulting text file, I was able to import it into my fresh EE installation! Happy day!

Perhaps a moderator can bump this thread to the appropriate place. I found this thread via Google, and just responded.

Good luck!

Does anyone happen to have this laying around?  Seems the site is down and I’m not sure if it’s a temporary issue or it’s gone forever.

Thanks
Kevin

Great help here, I can get through all the steps up until I have to import it into EE and then I get a really vague “Unable To Import Entries” error - but not sure where to go next. 

I saw someone else post this, but there was no response.  Any help here?