wordpress_site_importer

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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