Use case: You want to move away from Wordpress to Ikiwiki as your blogging/website platform, but you want to retain your old posts.

This is a simple tool that generates git-fast-import-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file. It retains creation time of each post, so you can use Ikiwiki's --getctime to get the preserve creation times on checkout.

WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned.


I include a modified version of this script. This version includes the ability to write [[!tag foo]] directives, which the original intended, but didn't actually do.

-- simonraven

ikiwiki-wordpress-import