https://github.com/concretecms/wordpress_site_importer

a Concrete add-on that imports content from a wordpress blog
https://github.com/concretecms/wordpress_site_importer

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a Concrete add-on that imports content from a wordpress blog

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/concretecms/wordpress_site_importer
• Owner: concretecms
• License: other
• Created: 2011-08-05T23:40:21.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-01T18:19:20.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-06-06T18:53:04.252Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: PHP
• Homepage:
• Size: 226 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 17
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE.TXT

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README

          
Wordpress Importer does a basic import of a wordpress blog.

The main idea is that someone can take their old content and have it represented on a concrete5 site.

What it is doing:

  - Uses a wizard-like interface to import

  - Import is incremental -- keeps user in the loop and continues where it left off

  - Includes basic image import

  - Uses WP's own text formatting functions so everything comes through looking like a paragraph, etc

  - Pages and post import to different pages, and use different page types if selected

  - Page parent/child relations kept

  - Imports Wordpress Categories to the attribute 'wordpress_categories' - no nested categories, but the category name is kept

  - Imports Wordpress Tags to the 'tags' attribute

  - Removes all blocks from "Main" and "Blog Post More" areas on newly created pages to keep lipsum text from showing up

  - Imports comments and comment dates

  - If users exist with the same username as a post author's username, uses that user for the author of the newly created page

Not so great:

  - No "Start Over" on the first step.  Choosing a new database when you have existing records doesn't do anything so the dialog shouldn't be there.

  - Not selecting a page to import under is very bad. Hundreds of pages show up under "home" and the link does not work at the WORDPRESSED step.

    - Should not proceed if "Posts" are going under Home. This basically ruins a site.

  - icon.png does not look good

Would be nice:

  - Option to import just posts or just pages.

  - some kind of rudimentary support for image captions, like 
  caption



  - Somehow keep post url structure, or update internal links in post content

  - Better import of images, script as is tries to import flickr images that probably shouldn't be imported

  - Keeping pingback comments would be nice if there was a comment block that supported pingbacks