This page is intended as a list of tools to help migrate from other Blog & CMS packages to ExpressionEngine.
By and large these will work by helping you get your information into MT format for importing.
Table of Contents
- Random
- Blogger
- Textpattern
- Wordpress
- Serendipity (s9y)
- SMF - SimpleMachines Forum
- LiveJournal
- PHPBB
- Postnuke
Random
* If you have your entries in RSS format, check out this RSS to MT Format thingo.
* If you have your entries in CSV format, check out Plugin: CSV Grab
MovableType is not included as it has an export feature built-in. Details on MT Import format.
Blogger
* Google Blog Converter has a python script that will convert Blogger XML to MovableType Import Format.
* Importing Blogger into Expression Engine (And see also MT steps)
Textpattern
* Export via template
* txp to MT format (txp support forum thread <—broken link)
Wordpress
* Google Blog Converter has a python script that will convert WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) to MovableType Import Format. (Currently, you have to go through Blogger format.)
* MT Export theme Blogging Expertise has a theme package that displays Wordpress content in MT Export format. It may require some tweaking to work with newer versions, but it’s easier to tweak this than an export script.
* Wordpress to EE export process David Russell describes how he moved content from Wordpress to Expression Engine (from July 2008).
* WordPress To Movable Type Export Script 1.2 Note that this script was written for Wordpress 2.1 and may not be compatible with later versions.
* Wordpress Exporter This script was last updated in 2005 and should not be used unless you have a very old version of Wordpress.
Serendipity (s9y)
* Serendipity to Movable Type export - use this to export your blogposts, categories and comments to a MT textfile which EE can import. Forum user “bjornbjorn” used this successfully to convert his blog (s9y 1.1 to EE 1.6.0)
SMF - SimpleMachines Forum
* Converting from SMF to ExpressionEngine Forum
Note The SMF import utility leaves problems with the database. The member tables are not updated properly and this could lead to unusual outcomes.
LiveJournal
* Google Blog Converter has a python script that will convert a LiveJournal export to MovableType Import Format. (Currently, you have to go through Blogger format.)
PHPBB
Postnuke