Converting from WordPress to Hakyll?

[Conal Elliott]

Has anyone converted their blog from WordPress to Hakyll? I'm looking for some pointers.

I did find an article about wordpress-->jekyll (http://vitobotta.com/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/), some of which is helpful.

Thanks, - Conal

[Ketil Malde]

mat...@loskot.net writes:

>> Has anyone converted their blog from WordPress to Hakyll? I'm looking for
>> some pointers.

Yes. Or, I'm still chipping away on it.

>> I did find an article about wordpress-->jekyll (
>> http://vitobotta.com/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-jekyll/), some of
>> which is helpful.

> Would anyone care to give any suggestions about Wordpress to Hakyll
> migration?

Although I hesitate to call it a suggestion, I can tell you what I
did. Basically, I dumped the WP MySQL table to a file, and worked over
the HTML manually (using Emacs macros) to turn them into markdown.
There are probably better ways.

-k
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> [2012-06-20 11:56:39+0200]

> Although I hesitate to call it a suggestion, I can tell you what I
> did. Basically, I dumped the WP MySQL table to a file, and worked over
> the HTML manually (using Emacs macros) to turn them into markdown.
> There are probably better ways.

I think pandoc can convert HTML to markdown.

--
Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 20 June 2012 10:56, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote:

> mat...@loskot.net writes:
>> Would anyone care to give any suggestions about Wordpress to Hakyll
>> migration?
>
> Although I hesitate to call it a suggestion, I can tell you what I
> did. Basically, I dumped the WP MySQL table to a file, and worked over
> the HTML manually (using Emacs macros) to turn them into markdown.

I've thought about WP's raw data processing, but leaving it as last resort.

> There are probably better ways.

ATM, I'm a bit busy, but I think I'll try with migration through
planet/RSS engine
similar to this:

http://blog.cuboxlabs.com/blog/2012/04/20/migrate-your-blog-to-octopress-using-planet-rb

When I manage to do it, I'll post here about results.

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 27 June 2012 00:22, <mat...@loskot.net> wrote:

> On Sunday, 24 June 2012 15:27:20 UTC+1, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> ATM, I'm a bit busy, but I think I'll try with migration through
>> planet/RSS engine similar to this:
>>
>>
>> http://blog.cuboxlabs.com/blog/2012/04/20/migrate-your-blog-to-octopress-using-planet-rb
>>
>> When I manage to do it, I'll post here about results.
>
>

> I've tried to import my posts using the planet.rb [1]
> It seems to have problems with <!-- more --!> so it imports incomplete posts
> through the feed.
> It also seems to have problems with handling titles, so it generates large
> number of files with names like "2011-12-17-.markdown".
> Not to mention it does not seem to handle HTML to Markdown well,
> so most of my posts consist of HTML copied form original versions in
> WordPress.
>
> So, I'm going to try different option.
>
> [1] https://github.com/pote/planet.rb

I have just tried to move all my posts (~400) and pages from
Wordpress to Markdown using exitwp [1] and it works well.
The result is impressively good.
I have had to take care of manual intervention wherever I used [text]
or [sourcecode] tags reltaed to syntax highlighting plugin.

So, I think exitwp could be recommend to Hakyll users who want to migrate.

[1] https://github.com/thomasf/exitwp

[Jasper Van der Jeugt]

exitwp certainly sounds interesting. You're always welcome to write a
short tutorial on it, or I could just link to it in the Hakyll FAQ?

Peace,
Jasper

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 28 June 2012 08:43, Jasper Van der Jeugt <m...@jaspervdj.be> wrote:
> exitwp certainly sounds interesting. You're always welcome to write a
> short tutorial on it, or I could just link to it in the Hakyll FAQ?

I haven't completed my migration yet and there may be some issues hiding.
So it's not ready to wrap up.
Once it's done, I'll try to describe the procedure.

[Ian Ross]

Hi Danny,

I don't know about HAML, but SCSS is easy to use with Hakyll. Just
install SASS, then add a rule like this

-- Compress CSS files.
match "css/*" $ do
route $ setExtension "css"
compile sass

where the sass compiler is defined as

-- | Process SCSS or CSS.
--
sass :: Compiler Resource String
sass = getResourceString >>> unixFilter "sass" ["-s", "--scss"]
>>^ compressCss

As for Turbinado, I'm not sure I understand. Hakyll generates a
static website that you can then serve using whatever server you like.
I used to use Cherokee, now use nginx, but I don't see any reason why
you couldn't use something like Turbinado or some other Haskell-based
server. That's one of the nice things about Hakyll: it doesn't tie
you to any particular server infrastructure.

Cheers,

Ian.

On 1 September 2012 03:36, <danny.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, June 28, 2012 4:36:40 AM UTC-4, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>>
>> On 28 June 2012 08:43, Jasper Van der Jeugt <m...@jaspervdj.be> wrote:
>> > exitwp certainly sounds interesting. You're always welcome to write a
>> > short tutorial on it, or I could just link to it in the Hakyll FAQ?
>>
>> I haven't completed my migration yet and there may be some issues hiding.
>> So it's not ready to wrap up.
>> Once it's done, I'll try to describe the procedure.
>>
>

> Any updates? I'd love to be able to do this as well.
>
> I would also love to be able to use HAML[1] and SCSS[2] (oh, how lovely they
> are!) with Hakyll, but Turbinado[3] hasn't been updated in years ]=
>
> [1] http://haml.info/
> [2] http://sass-lang.com/
> [3] http://www.turbinado.org/

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 19 June 2012 20:27, <mat...@loskot.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm bumping up this fairly old thread, but I have the very same question
> and the thread has no follow-ups.

>
> Would anyone care to give any suggestions about Wordpress to Hakyll
> migration?

It took me a while, but I have finally moved my blog to Hakyll [1].
So, I just posted explanation [2] on how I migrated my posts from WordPress to
Markdown in format and structure consumable by Hakyll.
Perhaps it will be helpful for others looking for easy ways to switch to Hakyll.

[1] http://mateusz.loskot.net/posts/2012/12/03/powered-by-hakyll/
[2] http://mateusz.loskot.net/posts/2013/01/06/moving-posts-from-wordpress-to-hakyll/

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 28 June 2012 08:43, Jasper Van der Jeugt <m...@jaspervdj.be> wrote:

> exitwp certainly sounds interesting. You're always welcome to write a
> short tutorial on it, or I could just link to it in the Hakyll FAQ?

Jasper, I've just remembered your suggestion.
Here is my explanation:

http://mateusz.loskot.net/posts/2013/01/06/moving-posts-from-wordpress-to-hakyll/