Comments on: postnuke to wordpress converter/importer

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:00:58 +0000

George:

I actually just noticed this updated version of my script that someone made and that works on Wordpress 2.5, at least: http://www.thereitis.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/pnconvert_250.txt. Maybe that can help?

By: George

George — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:10:17 +0000

Thanks for looking into it anyway.

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:48:39 +0000

Hi George,

I’m sorry, but I wrote this script almost 5 years ago, and wordpress (and postnuke) are a lot more complex than they used to be. I doubt I’ll be able to update it.

By: George

George — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:24:22 +0000

Oh man, how does it work on wp 2.8.4?
I would just love your script for he site http://www.kohtao-community.com.
It’ a charity site that urgently needs an update….
Can you help?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:03:33 +0000

oh, forgot my email address. catch me at spartan.ii [at] mac [dot] com.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:58:46 +0000

Hey, I’ve got a WP 1.5/PHP 5 version of this working if anyone wants it.

By: RC

RC — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:06:32 +0000

THANKS A LOT! You have no idea how much time you saved me. All I did was take the script and deleted the 4 lines like jk said and it worked beautifully the first time!

By: bryan

bryan — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:29:42 +0000

Hi Michael…

When I wrote this script, my goal was basically to grab the stories out of the pn tables and insert them with all the fields that WP wanted. I don’t know much about postnuke, wordpress, or php, so chances are that I didn’t do things the best way possible.

The first thing to do is look at your pn tables using a mySQL administration program (phpMyAdmin is my favorite). Figure out what columns you want moved into WordPress, and for each record in postnuke, copy those columns into the corresponding WordPress columns. Where WordPress has columns that don’t exist in pn, you’ll have to insert default or null values. My script is just a simple implementation of this procedure.

Unfortunately, I haven’t touched pn since last July, so I don’t know what might have changed in its table structure since this script was written. I did look at your site, and it seems like whatever column in postnuke stores the body of your stories is not getting copied correctly to the “yourblogprefix_posts” table “post_content” column.

You could add some debug output to the script I posted to make sure the post content is being read correctly. Something like:

printf(”Just read post content %s\n”, $myhometext);

right after

$myhometext = mysql_escape_string($myrow['pn_hometext']);

Good luck!

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:03:54 +0000

Still working with it…now its really screwed up. Would you be able to give some hints as to how this thing is supposed to work…I mean, what is going where, and what is supposed to match up with whatelse?

Thanks a million.
Michael

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:47:22 +0000

Hi,

Thank you so much for the script - it is exactly what I was looking for. I ran it with limited success. It seems that it did not import the entire stories, only the lead-ins. I am also going from pn .75 to wp 1.5, and made the adjustment in comment 10.

Take a look. The original pn site is at: http://www.bullnotbull.com/bull, and the wp site at http://www.bullnotbull.com/wp.

I’m a relative newbie, so I’m not sure what kind of adjustments to make to import the enitre story parts. Assistance greatly appreciated.

Michael