If you’re looking for a script to migrate images from Drupal to WordPress, check out Brendan Carr’s Drupal 6 to WordPress Image Migration plugin. Brendan used my Drupal to WordPress Migration Tool and developed his plugin as a companion. He also confirmed that my web-based script is compatible with WordPress 4. If you need to […]
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From time-to-time I get clients who ask me to only export the content to a WordPress database, after which they’ll complete the remaining setup themselves. If this applies to your project, you can use these migration notes to help get your new WordPress site running properly. Import the database dump file Please see these notes
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If you hired me to run a content export only, you’ll be responsible for setting up WordPress on your own server. Here are some notes to help you with importing the migrated WordPress database. Import the database dump file I will deliver either a MySQL database dump file or login credentials to the phpMyAdmin control
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When migrating Drupal terms into WordPress, it’s important to understand exactly what terms are and how the two systems handle categorising information. A primer on Drupal taxonomies One of Drupal’s most powerful features is its ability to organise content with taxonomies. Unfortunately, the taxonomy system is also notorious as one of the trickiest things about
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A Drupal to WordPress migration can sound daunting, especially if you have a large or long-established site. From my experience, a migration project is actually not very difficult in terms of technical challenge. It can, however, be time-consuming, tedious and sometimes finicky with the data mappings. It’s my job to make the process easy for
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This UML activity diagram accompanies my post, Drupal to WordPress migration explained. Diagram created with draw.io. Migration steps listing Prepare tables: This is where we reset the development database tables to a known state, ready for another migration pass. Delete unwanted vocabularies Delete unwanted terms Merge terms? Yes: go to step a; No: go to
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In a Drupal to WordPress migration post by Sam Michel, reader Jean-Philippe commented that why he couldn’t find the tables mentioned. I started composing my reply but for some reason the page wouldn’t let me post. Rather than waste the time it took to compose the reply, I thought it would be good to post
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This is part four of a series of posts documenting the table mappings for a site migration from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3. For more information, please see the first article in the series. Table mapping for WordPress users This maps Drupal user export to WordPress. Drupal 6.x WordPress 3.x Notes users wp_posts uid ID
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This is part three of a series of posts documenting the table mappings for a site migration from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3. For more information, please see the first article in the series. Table mapping for WordPress comments Drupal 6.x WordPress 3.x Notes comments wp_posts cid comment_ID nid comment_post_ID timestamp comment_date Converted from UNIX
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This is part two of a series of posts documenting the table mappings for a site migration from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3. For more information, please see the first article in the series. Table mapping for WordPress terms This table mapping exports the Drupal terms into WordPress. Drupal 6.x WordPress 3.x Notes term_data wp_terms
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Following on from Drupal to WordPress migration explained, I will create a series of posts documenting the table mappings for a site migration from Drupal 6.x to WordPress 3.x. To read the mapping, you look up the Drupal table on the left listing the fields we use for a migration. Directly to its right is
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In this post I will give a step-by-step explanation of my Drupal to WordPress migration SQL queries. For general information about migrating from Drupal to WordPress, please see instead my Drupal to WordPress Migration Guide. Since I offer site migration as a paid service, readers might be wondering why I’m giving away some of my
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These Drupal to WordPress migration notes are intended for clients who are handling some aspects of the migration themselves. Users of the Drupal to WordPress Migration Tool or MySQL queries might also find information here to resolve some problems. Admin account password and email address Your content management system (CMS) administrator password and email address
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I’m releasing my in-house tool for Drupal to WordPress migration. You can go directly to the download page for the latest version of the utility. If you’d rather let someone else do the work, you can find more information at my dedicated migration service page. When I started Another Cup of Coffee, we specialized in
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