Kevin Deldycke put together a cool script for migrating e107 to WordPress, if this is something that you want to do then his code is a good place to start. I recently ran it on an e107 0.7.20 and migrated to WP 3.0 so it still works.
Unfortunately Kev’s site seems to be offline right now but it should be back up soon, the code is shared on github for those that know about that kind of thing. You should be able to grab it from here.
Hopefully Kevin’s site will be back up soon and he asked me to refer people to his distributions so that you know you’ll get the latest code – this makes sense to me and also implies Kev intends to work on the script in the future.
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Thanks Jez for testing my old and rusty WordPress plugin.
As I told you recently, I plan to update my WordPress migration plugin in the future as I still have old e107 sites to migrate. As long as I have these migrations to do, I will not officially declare my plugin dead and unmaintained. But this future can be quite distant as I currently have much higher priority work to do.
BTW, my site is up and running. Hope the measures I’ve taken will last…
No worries.
A few people have left comments saying they are keen to use the script so they’ll be pleased to read that! I guess we aren’t the only people sold on WP!
Hi i have one question. It is possible to migrate all data of e07.
I mean users, forumposts, content?
ANd mybe i dont know which cms i should use insteed of e107
durpal, joomla or wp ?
Regards :)
It wouldn’t make sense to migrate forum posts to WordPress posts? But you can migrate e107 forum to other packages – I am currently investigating swapping to vBulletin and their e107 import seems to work OK.
I don’t know about “content” as I never used that e107 plugin.
What should you migrate to? I only wanted to be able to put up blog style news posts so WP was the obvious choice. If you are running a more complex site then you might want to stick with e107 – I prefer it to both Drupal and Joomla.
Hi there, well I’ve start migrating my e107 to wordpress using old version of wordpress then upgrading to the latest version….. Everything is fine, but I’ve got a big problem (to me), as my e107 posts always us the extend part (read more Iguess) and because this is not implemented in the conversion plugin I’ve got all my post in the extended showing…. This is quite messy cause I post a shitload of images and this is gonna rape my bandwith (there a something like 1600 images posts)
So is there a way to batch something for implementing the read more in that conversion script?
Hi, did you tick the “include extended news” box when running the import?!
Worked for me!
Hi jezza,
Well I’ve ticked the box and all my news have been correctly imported, and this is cool.
The big problem is that now I’ve got to edit more than 1600 news to add the “read more”(break them in extend view if you prefer) button that didn’t exist in WP when the script was written…. and just thinking about this makes me lazy :p
So I would to know if there is a way to adapt the script to import the newspost in Wp with both parts : before and after “Read More” now that this function is implemented in WP (my SQL kung fu is equal to zero negative ^^)
OK, I get ya. Well it seems inserting a page break in WP requires posting “”
So I guess a little modification to Kev’s script to insert that when it concatenates the news and extended bits together would sort you out?
If you can’t spot the right bit let me know and I’ll have a squizz :)
Hi Jezza sorry for my late response, as I’ve searched desesperately how to include a page break in my WP posts.
I don’t really know how I can do this for multiple reasons : the main one is that the script only work with old versions of wordpress and those versions didn’t have the page break element implemented.
So if you can “spot the right bit” and add a litlle modification to Kev’s script that would be really great!!!!
Hi everyone !
I’m rebooting the e107-Importer project. Fresh code is available right now.
For details, see my comment here: http://kevin.deldycke.com/2008/01/e107-to-wordpress-migration-v09-plug-in-released/comment-page-2/#comment-8199