Comments on: Geeklog to Wordpress converter

By: justdave

justdave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:18:31 +0000

I’m sure they could. I don’t know anyone to recommend to you though.

By: Sculley

Sculley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:06:57 +0000

Bummer but I understand and happy you’re busy! Do you think someone who has worked with WP before and knows xtml and css (me) will be able to handle the transfer with your tool?

By: justdave

justdave — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:10:24 +0000

@Sculley: unfortunately no. As much as I’d love the idea of making a little money on it, I’m way too busy these days to try to squeeze in anything else and still do a good job of it.

By: Sculley

Sculley — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:21:10 +0000

Hi Dave,

Are you available for hire (pay) to convert a Geeklog blog to Wordpress? I have a feeling a lot could go wrong and I am definitely not a database person and don’t know much about it.

Thanks so much,

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:19:15 +0000

I would love to use this script and I went through all the import screens inside WP, but it didn’t actually import anything. It would run correctly and then just report “0 posts imported” or “no categories to import”, things like that. All the way to the end it seemed like the script itself is working great, but it didn’t actually pull anything in from the Geeklog db.

Any ideas on why this wouldn’t work? I can double check my settings but I’m assuming the script wouldn’t “run” if those were incorrect.

By: justdave

justdave — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:21:59 +0000

Actually, to clarify that, article.php is intended to work as if your wordpress replaced your Geeklog in place, i.e. the root url of your wordpress install is the same as the root url of your geeklog was before you took it down.

By: justdave

justdave — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:51 +0000

article.php should be in the same directory with WP. I didn’t know WP had one already. If it does, I’m willing to bet it’s the same one and this is actually included in the distribution now. You could always look at it and see.

By: Kirk McElhearn

Kirk McElhearn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:09:01 +0000

The script worked fine to convert my GL database to WP, and it runs fine. However, the article.php file doesn’t do anything. All I’m getting is my articles that were done under GL opening in GL. There’s no redirect happening.

But I’m not sure I’ve understood what to do with it. I have my WP files in /wordpress/, and the article.php at the top level of my server. (I assume I shouldn’t be replacing the WP article.php file…) Is this correct?

By: Don Winner

Don Winner — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:00:20 +0000

Update: Tobias contacted me and the problem was that I was running PHP version 4.4.6 and his script is written for PHP 5. I have asked the host sys admins to upgrade PHP, and will try again once that’s been accomplished.

Don

By: Don Winner

Don Winner — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:42:05 +0000

I’m trying to convert my GL 1.4.1 website to Wordpress 2.7 and I’m running into some problems.

First of all, the database for my existing site is very large with 441.2 MiB total in the tables. I have almost 8,000 articles that I want to import and migrate to Wordpress.

I copied the geeklog.php file into the “{wordpress}/wp-admin/import/” directory, but when I then went there to try to use the script I had this error waiting for me:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/panamax/public_html/wordpress/wp-admin/import/geeklog.php on line 56

In the geeklog.php file at line 56 there’s this:

static private function read_url($url) {

Any comments or ideas?

Has anyone else successfully converted a GL 1.4.1 site to WP 2.7?

Should I drop back and use JustDave’s original script?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Don
http://www.panama-guide.com