Here are some scripts along with instructions for migrating a drupal site to wordpress.

README.txt

These instructions are ‘implemented’ in code as a small python script called migrate-drupal-data.py which you can find below.

  1. Dump your drupal database. To find out how to do this refer to the manual for your db (for mysql from the command line you use mysqldump and for postgres it is pg_dump)

  2. Load the drupal dump into your wordpress db:

      mysql -u [username] -p [password] < [path-to-drupal-dump]
    
  3. Edit the convert-drupal-data.sql script replacing ‘weblog_’ with your wordpress prefix

  4. Run convert-drupal-data.sql script against your wordpress db:

      mysql -u [username] -p [password] < convert-drupal-data.sql
    

    WARNING: this will delete all existing posts, comments and categories from your wordpress db. If you don’t want to do that edit the script as indicated therein).

  5. Finished.

Scripts

convert-drupal-data.sql

-- taken from
-- http://vrypan.net/log/archives/2005/03/10/migrating-from-drupal-to-wordpress/
-- and then improved :-) 

-- these lines will result in the deletion of all existing posts, comments -- and categories. Comments these out using '--' or /* ... */ if you don't -- want that to happen DELETE FROM weblog_wp_categories ; DELETE FROM weblog_wp_posts ; DELETE FROM weblog_wp_post2cat ; DELETE FROM weblog_wp_comments ;

/* -- does not work (think it is to do with password issues) -- also causes problems with auto-increment delete from weblog_wp_users;

INSERT INTO weblog_wp_users (ID, user_login, user_pass, user_nickname, user_email, user_registered) SELECT uid, name, pass, name, mail, FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) FROM users; */

INSERT into weblog_wp_categories( cat_ID,cat_name, category_nicename, category_description, category_parent ) SELECT term_data.tid, name, name, description, parent FROM term_data, term_hierarchy WHERE term_data.tid=term_hierarchy.tid;

INSERT INTO weblog_wp_posts( ID, post_author, post_date, post_content, post_title, post_excerpt, post_name, post_modified ) SELECT nid, 1, FROM_UNIXTIME(created), body, title, teaser, concat('OLD',nid), FROM_UNIXTIME(changed) FROM node WHERE type='blog' OR type='page' OR type='story' OR type='forum' ;

INSERT INTO weblog_wp_post2cat (post_id,category_id) SELECT nid,tid FROM term_node ;

INSERT INTO weblog_wp_comments ( comment_post_ID, comment_date, comment_content, comment_parent ) SELECT nid, FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp), concat(subject,' ', comment), thread FROM comments ;

DROP TABLE term_data; DROP TABLE term_hierarchy; DROP TABLE node; DROP TABLE term_node; DROP TABLE comments; DROP TABLE users;

migrate-drupal-data.py

!/usr/bin/env python

import os

target wordpress db information

user = 'your_user_name' db = 'your_db_name'

replace this with the path to your dump from drupal

drupalDbDump = '~/tmp/drupal-db-dump.sql'

path to drupal conversion sql script

templateConvertDrupalSql = 'convert-drupal-data.sql'

tmp file used as an intermediary

convertDrupalData = 'tmp_sql.sql'

default wordpress prefix used in templateConvertDrupalSql script

you shouldn't have to change this

templatePrefix = 'weblog_'

your wordpress prefix

wpPrefix = ''

def prepareConvertSql(): ff = file(templateConvertDrupalSql) tstr = ff.read() ff.close() tstr = tstr.replace(templatePrefix, wpPrefix) ff2 = file(convertDrupalData, 'w') ff2.write(tstr) ff2.close()

if name == 'main': sqlCmd = 'mysql -u %s -p %s < %s' cmdInsertDrupalData = sqlCmd % (user, db, drupalDbDump) cmdConvertDrupalData = sqlCmd % (user, db, convertDrupalData)

# getData()
prepareConvertSql()
os.system(cmdInsertDrupalData)
os.system(cmdConvertDrupalData)

 

10 Responses to Migrating Drupal to WordPress

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  2. mik says:

    for rgrp perhaps you could help me convert one drupal site to wordpress i am offering $50 no rush deadline please reply by email if intrested

  3. rgrp says:

    mik: I’m sorry to say I’m not able to help you with your conversion. Have you tried using the scripts above?

  4. mik says:

    Hi i have not tied, i have no idea how to start :-( perhaps you could give istructions simple ppl? such as what preparation before using scripts? where to put the scripts in what folder? where to put various sql files? how do i know if and where phyton is installed on my server? will this script work for drupal 4.4.2? thanks a lot for time and patience

  5. rgrp says:

    mik: I have reworked the post to provided proper instructions for usage. Let me know if that helps. Regarding drupal 4.4: I used this script to convert a drupal 4.5 db without problem and I don’t think there were any schema changes between 4.4 and 4.5 that would affect the tables being used here so I think it should work fine. If you do encounter errors try taking a look at your drupal db dump and comparing table columns with those used by the convert-drupal-data.sql script.

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