Joe Auricchio

I moved back from TextPattern to WordPress. It sucks less than it used to. The theme (”Modern”) isn’t my work. I hacked it a little bit (narrower sidebar, tighter top, page template includes sidebar).

The TextPattern importer brought in all the posts and all the categories, but didn’t associate them. This is annoying.

I installed an OpenID plugin and poked it a bit. If you use OpenID, let me know if it works.

Update: Categories imported. Google told me I didn’t want to use the default TextPattern import script, I wanted to blah blah edit blah blah PHP blah blah I hate WordPress.

Here’s the script I ended up writing: do-categories.php.txt. It assumes both textpattern and wordpress tables are in the same MySQL database, to join across them. You should change the table names. First run the two queries interactively (phpMyAdmin?) to verify that everything looks right. Then put this in your wordpress top directory next to wp-config.php, fix the extension, and php do-categories.php. It’ll print out the things it does—another opportunity for sanity checking. No warranties express or implied yadda yadda. Thanks to Alex Brie’s script for guidance.

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