This site will be closing soon. Simply couldn't be bothered with it. I will be retaining the domain name.

As the title states, comments are now turned back on. I've not been very active with this site over the last few months and was getting sick of crap/spam comments appearing. At the time the easy solution was to disable commenting.

During this time I have occasionally checked the website stats and have noticed regular and consistent traffic. I've even navigated to referring sites, out of curiosity, where in some cases the blog posts mentioned the fact that they were unable to comment at the site. Hence, I've enabled commenting.

There's a slight change to the downloading procedure. No longer is it necessary to create a user account simply to download any file. Download to your heart's content.

At this stage, in order to leave comments or seek advice then a user account is necessary.

Version 1.04 of the Wordpress 2.5 to Drupal 5.x/6.x converter has been released and available for download from here.

For details regarding what's new in this release check here.

By all means for any suggestions, comments or questions here is a good start.

Enjoy.

The next version (1.04) of the converter will be out soon. This will include some bug fixes and slightly improved progress meter.

The bug fixes are:

1. Titles of posts now correctly display symbols whereas as before html code appeared in lieu of the symbol eg. £ appeared instead of the symbol £ and so on.
2. The same process, as above, is applied to the user name of the comments table.
3. Included additional option, the setting of the filter format for comments.
4. Corrected the category hierarchy, under certain conditions sub-categories were not being recorded accurately. This has been addressed.
5. Comment headings to be created, first four or five words of the comment to be the comment heading.
6. Not that this will be overly noticeable, but the thread field of the comments table is now correctly populated with Base 36 (Vancode) numbers.

Improved Progress Window

Created two additional progress bars to the Importing Progress Window. Included now are progress bars relating to comments per post and the assigning of categories to posts. All bars should tick over at a constant rate, at least the user knows something is happening.

Status

The only bug fix left at this stage pertains to the the comment heading aspect. Hopefully that will be addressed within the next few days, when done, I'll upload.

By all means report all problems or issues here.

This site is now an OpenID enabled site. What this means is that in order to post comments, download files, create forum posts etc. a login is still required but that is achieved through your OpenID account. This also bypasses the email registration process as you are instantly verified with your OpenID.

For further information here is your starting point.

For user's that have already created accounts and want to login with their OpenID it will be easier to login as per normal and edit your account details. There is now an OpenID tab, simply enter your OpenID. Next time logging in, just use your OpenID.

As promised the Wordpress to Drupal 6.x converter (Version 1.03) is now available for download.

What's new.

• Conversion to 5.x and 6.x
• Filter Formats specifically retrieved from Drupal
• More flexibility re - Content types, Promote to Front page and published
• Teasers created re - <!--More--> tag
• More thorough snapshot of the Wordpress database

For full details see the manual.

Wordpress 2.5 to Drupal 6.x, is about to be released. It will be included in the next version, that being 1.03, which will also retain conversion to Drupal 5.x. That is, there will be an option, convert to 5.x or 6.x.

For feature requests by all means ask for them here.

The Wordpress to Drupal converter, version 1.02 is available for download.

This latest version addresses a problem identified by user DeeZone. Due to an oversight on my behalf (not correctly escaping SQL data relating to category names) created the false error code of duplicate category errors.

As is always the case, solving this problem identified another problem relating to character encodings. Wordpress data is now encoded as unicode (utf8), it was latin. As of this version, the Wordpress database is treated as unicode, which solves some of the encoding problems.

The manual will be updated shortly to reflect the changes.

The program can be downloaded from here.

All comments or suggestions via the Wordpress to Drupal forum.

A converter upgrade has just occurred. Version 1.01 now released and available for download.

A bug was detected in the Search and Replace module whereby only the body field was updated and not the teaser field. This has now been addressed.

One other little cosmetic item addressed is that after a successful replace operation the preview panels are now cleared or emptied.

The files can be downloaded from here. The previous files have been removed.