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By: Thy will be done: m2wp.py is released. | schwuk.com

Thy will be done: m2wp.py is released. | schwuk.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:31:17 +0000

[...] agreed with Stuart that it should be released regardless of demand, but it really did need some cleaning up [...]

By: randy

randy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:38:51 +0000

Daryl, mephisto should come with a conversion script (using rake it looks like). Have a look at vendors/plugins/mephisto_converters

By: Daryl

Daryl — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:48:13 +0000

Huh… that’s funny. I’m thinking of going the other way (from Wordpress to Mephisto) and came across this because I was looking for migration scripts in the other direction.

My goals are a bit different. I’m much better on Rails than I am on php and like the way Mephisto works on the backend. Wordpress has run my blog quite faithfully for nearly 4 years now but the way it’s grown and the way it works has been making me look at mephisto a lot more (though concerned about the support for xml-rpc posting and slow “dev” updates). I’m also just much happier having ruby and rails than php, but YMMV.

any chance of posting that script ? I imagine I can get it to work backwards… =]

By: randy

randy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:45:39 +0000

I agree with Stuart; just put it out there now and let people hack it to their needs. Overtime it will become a production ready script for the masses (or the masses will have several options).

I for one would love to see/use it. I’ve been on Mephisto for a while with the intention of diving deeper into Ruby. No such luck though. If you have it, I would like it. Thanks!

By: William Mitchell

William Mitchell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:52:14 +0000

I am also migrating from Mephisto, because it is apparently unsupported.

Can you post the Python code somewhere, or sent it? Thanks!

By: David Goodwin

David Goodwin — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:30:34 +0000

Despite every ‘web2.0′ language/framework having a ‘create a blog application in 5 minutes’ example, it’s amusing to see even a developer default to Wordpress, which is still written for php4

David

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:09:41 +0000

Suggestion, borne of my own bitter experience: open source the script now, despite its nature as a hack and despite it being you-specific. Publishing stuff to your website is the best form of backup I know. Otherwise, two years from now someone will say, can I have that script? and you’ll say, er, no, I’ve rebuilt my machine three times since then…

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:33:27 +0000

Perfect timing! I will also migrate from Mephisto to WordPress, mainly because it doesn’t have the “older posts” link, doesn’t do tags properly, isn’t developed and sometimes crashes for no apparent reason (and I have to go down into the source code and add a require “something” somewhere).

So, where’s that script of yours, I’d like to give it a try :).

By: Armin Ronacher

Armin Ronacher — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:45:05 +0000

Just don’t look under the hood. Then you are fine.