History of Importing Content From Other CMSs
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If you port content from another CMS you can add your technique here. Importing Blog Posts from TypepadTypePad won't let you do a database dump of your blog posts, but it will let you dump all your posts and related comments via a custom index template. For this example, we start with a blog by a single author and we create a custom template that generates a text document which we can easily convert into a php hash, which we will then process to push the posts into our bitweaver install.Step 1. The TypePad TemplateFirst thing to do is in TypePad create a new index template. This index file will generate a text file that looks similar to a php hash. Note that because we can't escape quotes in our blog posts text we don't use quotes for our hash, we use %QUOTE%. In the next step we will escape all quotes in our content and then convert the %QUOTE% tags to real quotes. Also worth nothing, in this example, we push TypePad categories into Tags. This assumes you are using the TagsPackage. You could use a similar technique with PigeonholesPackage.
| If you port content from another CMS you can add your technique here. Import Scripts and TutorialsImporting Blog Posts from TypepadIncludes templates, scripts and step by step instructions for exporting data from Typepad and importing it into bitweaver BlogsPackage. Additional ToolsConvert HTML to Tikiwiki SyntaxCPAN has a perl script: HTML-WikiConverter, which you can use to convert HTML content to Tikiwiki syntax. This is especially useful for importing hundreds of html pages into WikiPackage, or any package that you want to use Tikiwiki syntax in. There is also an online version of the script if you just need to convert a few pages. |