I’ve worked with EE on a bunch of projects and I’m looking into what it would take to move a site built on Textpattern into EE. Using Solspace’s Importer add-on, I can pretty easily import the articles into EE as JSON data, though I haven’t been able to solve for 2 things:
- Importing article comments - at the moment, the site has about 6,000 articles, most with tons of comments. I can easily set up a script to export the comments in whatever way needed out of the Textpattern database. Not quite sure how to go about importing them, since when an article is imported as an entry into EE, it gives it a new unique ID, so the only thing tying that old comment to its parent entry is gone. Thoughts on how to go about doing this?
- Images - most of the images are inline in the body html of the article, but they’re on a remote URL (same server, remote URL for serving static images, but just using a different filesystem path to the images folder). Any idea how to transition this logic to EE? I don’t want to store uploaded images on the same URL as EE if possible.