Migrating a Wordpress website to Django

[John K]

Hello all,

We are auditing several web frameworks and will ultimately choose one
that will replace Wordpress (Wordpress hosted on our servers). So far,
Django fits the bill.

Has anyone had any experience migrating a Wordpress site to a Django
solution? If so, it would be great to hear how your experience went,
and any tips that may help the migration go smoothly.

Our 2 big tickets are content migration and user migration.

• We currently have tens of thousands of articles and thousands of
user accounts. Are there any automated tools for importing Wordpress
data into Django? What content migration strategy did you use?

• Any issues with porting pre-existing URLs into Django? How did you
handle URL routing? (old Wordpress URLs into Django)?

• Were there any problems or pitfalls during your migration that were
not immediately apparent in the beginning of the migration process?

Thanks in advance
John

[creecode]

Hello John,

A quick search on Google shows some folks have done WP to Django
migrations. Following are a few links.

http://www.nbrightside.com/blog/2007/10/14/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-blog-to-django

http://code.google.com/p/django-wordpress-admin/

http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/306

Toodle-looooooo...........
creecode

[John K]

Hey thanks for the links. It would be great to discuss personal
experiences with the group.

On Nov 2, 1:47 pm, creecode <creec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> A quick search on Google shows some folks have done WP to Django
> migrations.  Following are a few links.
>

> http://www.nbrightside.com/blog/2007/10/14/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress...

[Antoni Aloy]

2009/11/2 John K <jkako...@gmail.com>:

I migrated my own blog (trespams) from Wordpress to Django. The main
difficult was to take care of tags and html conversions. You can
mantain url with Django Redirect and hardcondig some of the others in
urls.py.

I had to create a migration script but this was just a matter of hours
with a little bit of manual work.

--
Antoni Aloy López
Blog: http://trespams.com
Site: http://apsl.net

[Skylar Saveland]

inspectdb might be of some interest

[John K]

Thanks. Django redirect looks very useful. I'm hoping for a 1 to 1
conversion of URL's and avoid redirects all together. The redirect app
would be a great last resort.

On Nov 2, 2:32 pm, Antoni Aloy <antoni.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/2 John K <jkakouli...@gmail.com>: