Migration help going FROM wordpress TO Roller?

[fritz <fr...@hp.com>]

In vain I've searched for information on exporting a blog on Wordpress to
Roller. 

Does anyone have any pointers, hints, ideas that might be helpful? I've got
full admin rights on both systems so even some queries to convert one to
another would be fine.

Thanks in advance. 
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Re: Migration help going FROM wordpress TO Roller?

[Lance Lavandowska <la...@brainopolis.com>]

Lance Lavandowska wrote:
> Somebody has written a WP plugin for exporting to some MoveableType 
> format.  This should at least get you started.

doh! link:

http://epierce.blog.usf.edu/?p=15

> 
> I remember a conversation a couple years ago about exporting from 
> MoveableType to Roller; but I cannot find anything in Google.
> 
> Lance
> 
> Matt Raible wrote:
>> I doubt this will help, but there's a few hits on google for "roller
>> to wordpress".  Maybe you could reverse one of those instructions?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> http://nullpointer.debashish.com/migrating-a-roller-blog-to-wordpress
>>
>> Matt
>>
> 
> 

Re: Migration help going FROM wordpress TO Roller?

[Lance Lavandowska <la...@brainopolis.com>]

Somebody has written a WP plugin for exporting to some MoveableType 
format.  This should at least get you started.

I remember a conversation a couple years ago about exporting from 
MoveableType to Roller; but I cannot find anything in Google.

Lance

Matt Raible wrote:
> I doubt this will help, but there's a few hits on google for "roller
> to wordpress".  Maybe you could reverse one of those instructions?
> 
> For example:
> 
> http://nullpointer.debashish.com/migrating-a-roller-blog-to-wordpress
> 
> Matt
> 

Re: Migration help going FROM wordpress TO Roller?

[Matt Raible <ma...@raibledesigns.com>]

I doubt this will help, but there's a few hits on google for "roller
to wordpress".  Maybe you could reverse one of those instructions?

For example:

http://nullpointer.debashish.com/migrating-a-roller-blog-to-wordpress

Matt

On 4/18/07, Dave <sn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/07, fritz <fr...@hp.com> wrote:
> > In vain I've searched for information on exporting a blog on Wordpress to
> > Roller. Does anyone have any pointers, hints, ideas that might be helpful? I've got
> > full admin rights on both systems so even some queries to convert one to
> > another would be fine.
>
> Unfortunately, you're going to have to write some code. I'd suggest
> using Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/) because it's so easy-to-use
> for SQL, XMLRC and can easily call Java APIs.
>
> Here are three possible approaches:
>
> 1) Use Groovy to SQL query Wordpress and write to Roller API
> 1.1) Take a look at the experimental Roller/Groovy scripts here:
> http://tinyurl.com/2l2no4
> 1.2) The README.txt explains how to use the scripts: http://tinyurl.com/2urbw6
> 1.3) Write a Groovy script to:
>    1.3.1) Query the Wordpress database via SQL via JDBC.
>    1.3.2) Call the groovy scripts to create users, blogs, entries and comments
>         - createuser.gy - http://tinyurl.com/3cwy9j
>         - createblog.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2wnc34
>         - createentry.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2trho9
>         - createcomment.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2jlwke
>
> 2) Use the MetaWeblog API to read entries from Wordpress an write them
> to Roller (you could use the ROME Propono BlogClient library to do
> that, or Groovy XMLRPC). The problem with that approach is that you
> won't get comments.
>
> 3) Query Wordpress via SQL and then use SQL to create entries,
> comments, etc. The problem with this approach is that you must have a
> full understanding of the Roller data model and you must get all the
> relationships right.
>
> Hope that helps. Check back if you have more questions, comments or
> want to share code.
>
> - Dave
>


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Re: Migration help going FROM wordpress TO Roller?

[Dave <sn...@gmail.com>]

On 4/17/07, fritz <fr...@hp.com> wrote:
> In vain I've searched for information on exporting a blog on Wordpress to
> Roller. Does anyone have any pointers, hints, ideas that might be helpful? I've got
> full admin rights on both systems so even some queries to convert one to
> another would be fine.

Unfortunately, you're going to have to write some code. I'd suggest
using Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/) because it's so easy-to-use
for SQL, XMLRC and can easily call Java APIs.

Here are three possible approaches:

1) Use Groovy to SQL query Wordpress and write to Roller API
1.1) Take a look at the experimental Roller/Groovy scripts here:
http://tinyurl.com/2l2no4
1.2) The README.txt explains how to use the scripts: http://tinyurl.com/2urbw6
1.3) Write a Groovy script to:
   1.3.1) Query the Wordpress database via SQL via JDBC.
   1.3.2) Call the groovy scripts to create users, blogs, entries and comments
        - createuser.gy - http://tinyurl.com/3cwy9j
        - createblog.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2wnc34
        - createentry.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2trho9
        - createcomment.gy - http://tinyurl.com/2jlwke

2) Use the MetaWeblog API to read entries from Wordpress an write them
to Roller (you could use the ROME Propono BlogClient library to do
that, or Groovy XMLRPC). The problem with that approach is that you
won't get comments.

3) Query Wordpress via SQL and then use SQL to create entries,
comments, etc. The problem with this approach is that you must have a
full understanding of the Roller data model and you must get all the
relationships right.

Hope that helps. Check back if you have more questions, comments or
want to share code.

- Dave