Tag: WordPress
Import Posts into WordPress with SimpleWXR
by Russ Knize on Nov.13, 2008, under Computing, Site
After some experimentation with the WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) importer, I decided it was more trouble than it was worth. The importer requires too many details to create usable posts out of the basic “log” entires on my old website. Instead, I have taken the portion of Zack Preble’s “CSV” Importer that interfaces with WordPress, fixed the database query problems for categories, and adapted it to a simple XML parser. Then it was a simple matter to write a Perl script that could parse the HTML and generate the XML files.
The XML tags are modeled after WXR and the following are supported:
<item>, <title>, <post_date>, <category>, <content>
Here is an example XML file.