[TYPO3-english] importing wordpress site to TYPO3, suggestions?

[Katja Lampela]

Hi and thank you very much François!
I will look into this.


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With kind regards

Katja Lampela
*Lieska-tuotanto*
www.lieska.net

31.5.2012 16:42, François Suter kirjoitti:
> Hi Katja,
>
>> I should import a large (over 300 pages, 2 languages) WP site to TYPO3.
>>
>> It would be great if there was some initial importing way, even simple;
>> like creating all pages in root level and contents in one column per
>> page. I could then rearrange everything. But of course more complex
>> (keeping the structure and the language) importing would be even better :)
>>
>> What would be your suggestion how to start? I have no knowledge of
>> wordpress.
>
> I did that recently, although my scenario was a bit different: I imported WP articles into some custom table I made in TYPO3 and WP images into the DAM. I used my extension external_import with the SQL connector (svconnector_sql) to query the WP database. I have posted at this address:
>
> http://d.pr/f/ZbHQ
>
> a ZIP file containing two PHP files.
>
> - external_import.php is the actual configuration for external_import
> - class.tx_journal_externalimport_hooks.php contains code using one of the hooks in external_import to recreate links to DAM images or between articles. That may be beyond what you need, but I thought I would still throw it in if it can help.
>
> If you take this course and have to work with pages, you should get the current SVN version of external_import, which solves a bug related to importing stuff as pages.
>
> HTH
>