Comments on: Migrate/Convert/Import Drupal 5.x to WordPress 2.7

By: Revamping my website | Shufei Lei

Revamping my website | Shufei Lei — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:54:23 +0000

[...] a couple of months, I finally migrated my website from Drupal to Wordpress, with the help of the migration SQL code from Mike Smullin. Though I loved Drupal and spent a significant amount of time and effort in building out my site, I [...]

By: sangprabo

sangprabo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:07:41 +0000

Hi, thanks for such a great post. It really helps me. There is one thing I don’t understand:
When we import drupal.comments into wordpress.wp_comments, approved comments become hidden/pending and vice versa. I think it’s because status field list in Drupal is set to 0 when comment is approved, but Wordpress’s comment_approved is set to 1 when comment is approved.

This sql command works for me
UPDATE wordpress.wp_comments set comment_approved = (comment_approved + 1) % 2;

Feel free to edit it as you wish. Ah, I’m using Drupal 5.7 and Wordpress 2.8.6 by the way. Thanks again!

By: Alicia

Alicia — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:41:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, it worked great for me!

By: fade

fade — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:32:13 +0000

In case category didn’t appear, use this in your wordpress database:

update wp_term_relationships,wp_term_taxonomy set wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = wp_term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id where wp_term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id=wp_term_taxonomy.term_id;

By: Nils Schulte am Hülse

Nils Schulte am Hülse — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:22:21 +0000

Migration zurück zu WP: Drupal in WordPress importieren…

Vor ca. 1,5 Jahren habe ich mich entschieden mit meinem privaten Blog den Wechsel von WordPress auf Drupal zu wagen. Dabei habe ich wertvolle Erfahrungen gesammelt – aber nun möchte ich die bestehenden Inhalte in diesen WordPress MU Blog importier…

By: Vinnie

Vinnie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:13:37 +0000

this was a huge help, and better then the other posts i’ve come across (for instance, they didn’t get the comment counts working correctly).

thank you.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:04:57 +0000

Thanks for updating/creating this script – for me it’s nearly perfect – two issues:

1. the insert for the posts does not work – says duplicate id error – only way to get it to work was to change insert into to replace into

2. the categories dont line up with the posts – is this because of the replace above?

By: Kin

Kin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:13:56 +0000

Thanks very much. I was importing from drupal 6 to wordpress 2.7 and I had to make some minor changes, for example, in drupal posts are saved as stories rather than posts. this meant the weren’t showing up. I just added this little find and replace to the end:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_type = REPLACE(post_type,’story’,'post’);

I also had to make some changes to the comments import as it was throwing up some ‘database not selected errors’:

# update comments count on wp_posts table
UPDATE wordpress.wp_posts SET `comment_count` = (SELECT COUNT(`comment_post_id`) FROM wordpress.wp_comments WHERE `wp_posts`.`id` = `wp_comments`.`comment_post_id`);

Thanks again for the script, this was just what the doctor ordered

By: Honal

Honal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:35:38 +0000

You might want to change the query to include blogs too to

INSERT INTO startupmedia_wp.wp_posts (id, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_excerpt, post_name, post_modified, post_type, `post_status`)
SELECT DISTINCT
n.nid `id`,
FROM_UNIXTIME(n.created) `post_date`,
r.body `post_content`,
n.title `post_title`,
r.teaser `post_excerpt`,
IF(SUBSTR(a.dst, 11, 1) = ‘/’, SUBSTR(a.dst, 12), a.dst) `post_name`,
FROM_UNIXTIME(n.changed) `post_modified`,
n.type `post_type`,
IF(n.status = 1, ‘publish’, ‘private’) `post_status`
FROM startupmedia_drupal.node n
INNER JOIN startupmedia_drupal.node_revisions r
USING(vid)
LEFT OUTER JOIN startupmedia_drupal.url_alias a
ON a.src = CONCAT(‘node/’, n.nid)
WHERE n.type IN (‘post’, ‘page’,'blog’);

and then add

update startupmedia_wp.wp_posts set post_type= ‘post’ where post_type =’blog’

this will make sure that the blogs are also copied