Anybody out there done a Wordpress to CS2.1?

I am itching to start playing in CS with my main blog.  I want it to conncide with my actually learnhing to write dotNet stuff.  I have heard talk of BLogML,  but there seems to be no Wordpress specific tools or experience out there.  Same for BlogAPI.  I'd love to simply have a tool that I can upload the Wordpress Export file,  and have it pour into a CS 2.1 blog.  The Movable Type to Wordpress import worked pretty much just like this.  There's probably others ,  of reasonably enlightened developer status who would appreciate this. 

Since there is a successfull conversion from Blogger to CS using BlogML, you can do same for WP or MT.

Read this post to know how to generate BlogML wellformed file.  After having it in  hand, my BlogML converter does the remained things.

New BlogML version as well as its appropriate converter for CS will be ready tomorrow.

I don't seem to have a similar export tool within Wordpress.  the only "Backup" they offer is a database backup,  which is NOT XML.

Wordpress 2.1 is promising to have an XML export.  But it's not here yet.   CS really needs to have a tool to import from EXISTING export mechanisms (like Wordpress has for Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, TextPattern) 

I was trying to find out if there were any people who HAVE done a move from Wordpress to CS, so they can give some specific steps like you've done for Blogger.  Thanks for your response, though.   

If you see the post I linked, could get the idea.

WP, MT and Blogger are using same way for skinning so the technique for Blogger is appliable for WP and MT with a few changes.

It's just that Wordpress only exports a SQL file with Create Table statements.......it doesn't output anything like what is in the Blogger file shown by the article you linked to.  Or am I missing something?

am i wrong that the only thing I can OUTPUT from Wordpress is a SQL file?  I do not know of a way to output the kind of file that is described as being available with blogger in the above mentioned link.  This sure woudl be nice to be able to suck all my Blog entries, comments, trackbacks, categories,  and tags into CS,  and begin playing with the functionality with a full blog to administer. 

I would think this would be a higher priority than it seems to be.  I mean, what else woudl be a bigger draw than making it easy to switch over? 

I can't understand what you say you can only get a SQL file from WP.

If you read that post carefully, can believe by chaning your skin codes you can generate an XML file instead of your skin.

This is the only type of export that is available.  I don't really have much of an idea as to what I am supposed to do from the article you mention.  It refers to items in blogger that do not seem to have an equivalent in Wordpress.  I don't get much of an idea of where to start in "changing my skin codes". Since I am not rerally a PHP coder,  I am not comfortable messing with the "skins" unless I have explicit instructions on exactly what lines to change. 

I still desire, therefore,  some direction in importing an entire blog from Wordpress.  For example,  in order to transfer my Movable Type blog to Wordpress,  I did an export from the admin tools in Movable type,  took that exported file,  and IMPORTED it directly into Wordpress.  It was that simple.  There ought to be a way to take the exported SQL database file and map it to a particular blog ID in Community Server,  and assign all the users of that blog as users of the CS blog,  and import all the posts and comments and trackback info,  categories,  etc. 

Short of this, or at least some tools to make it just a tad more accessible to anyone less than an extreme .Net geek,  I 'm afraid CS will only get converts from other blog systems among those of the geek-a-rati. 

I didn't know that WP needs PHP knowldege to let you design a skin.  I thought it has same engine as Blogger or MT.

I can't give you any idea on how to export your content to BlogML but if you do it, my BlogML converter can help out for import.

Surely you can use SQL manipulations to import your content but this can't be a global way for all users to develop it.

The code which will be available in WP 2.1 that allows for XML exports can be obtained now through the Wordpress-to-Wordpress import plugin. You can read more about it here: http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/

 I've used it several times to move Wordpress between hosts or from Wordpress.com to a self-hosted site for friends and family. I will soon be using it to move my site from WP to CS... hopefully.

I'm trying to switch from Wordpress to CS2.1 but I can't get it to work.

I used the Wordpress-to-Wordpress import/export.

I then installed the BlogML 2.1 Converter.

I then then tried to import the exported file by uploading it in the blogs Syndication Settings in CS.

I got this error:

Couldn't load your BlogML file. Maybe it is wellformedness

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Exception: Couldn't load your BlogML file. Maybe it is wellformedness

Obviously you had to get this error because the file that Wordpress generates for you isn't a valid BlogML file.  You need a valid BlogML 2.1 file to be able to do this import.

Keyvan Nayyeri:

Obviously you had to get this error because the file that Wordpress generates for you isn't a valid BlogML file.  You need a valid BlogML 2.1 file to be able to do this import.

Oh... well is there any way to convert this file that I now have into a BlogML-file? 

It should be possible but may be easy or complicated task.

I don't know what's the structure of their file but if it's an XML file (99% is), you can use an XSL Transform to get a BlogML file.  You can also write a .NET code to read some specific elements/attributes from source file and write them to a new BlogML file.

Hope this helps.

Keyvan Nayyeri:

It should be possible but may be easy or complicated task.

I don't know what's the structure of their file but if it's an XML file (99% is), you can use an XSL Transform to get a BlogML file.  You can also write a .NET code to read some specific elements/attributes from source file and write them to a new BlogML file.

Hope this helps.

This article

http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/ 

says it's wordpress extended RSS.

But I guess it won't hurt to try.

Is there a program to do this XSL transform? My google skills are failing me.
And no, I'm not a programmer so I can't write any .NET code.

Thanks a lot for helping out. I really want to move my wordpress blog to CS but I feel like I've hit a wall here...