What is that you say? I thought you were using Typo? Yeah, well its been a rough month. I have been doing a bunch of PHP at work, and it caused me to (for the first time) consider some other options for my blogging pleasures. When I started writing Ruby I made the same mistake I did when I started writing CF, that is I thought my site needed to run on that platform. And the truth of it is that if I am going to be agnostic and promote Open Source tools, then i damn well better consider all of them.
I have often admired several features of WordPress but never really considered it for my blog. Well I got to playing with it and found it to be more than happy. It even took my only about 45 minutes to move my content from my old BlogCFC site. Something that was more work that it was worth to try when moving to Typo.
There were a couple resources that were instrumental in my being able to make the jump. The first was Sean Tierney’s blog where he posted a set of file to help move my blog from BlogCFC to wordpress. I was able to use Seans script to move me to a Wordpress 1.5 site with only a couple modifications. Then upgrading to the latest Wordpress was a matter of unzipping the new files, copying over my config and running an upgrade script. After that I needed to move my Typo blog over as well. I found several resources on moving from Movable Type to Typo, so I chose to use one of those as an example to write a script that outputs they Typo blog data into the MT data format. This is easily consumable by most blog importers including WordPress. I will attach the MTOut script to this post. Just drop it in your Typo scripts folder and give it a run. By default it will just output the code to the STDOUT, but if you use the -f flag you can specify the filename you would like to write the data into. Of course there is always the -h to see the options.
Anyway, I am looking forward to playing with Wordpress as well as posting more, now that I wont be consumed by comment spam.
Laters.
