Blog Migrations

Most methods listed on this page require read access to the database to generate posts from your old system. Each method generates .markdown posts in the _posts directory based on the entries in the DB. Please make sure you take a look at the generated posts to see that information has been transferred over properly. Also, the majority of the import scripts do not check for published or private posts, so please look over what Jekyll has created for you.

*Note: There’s been an issue opened to improve this process. If you have ideas or comments, chime in!

WordPress

Movable Type

$ export DB=my_mtdb
$ export USER=dbuser 
$ export PASS=dbpass 
$ ruby -r ‘./lib/jekyll/converters/mt’ -e ’Jekyll::MT.process( \ “#{ENV[”DB"]}", “#{ENV[”USER"]}", “#{ENV[”PASS"]}")’

Typo 4+

$ export DB=my_typo_db 
$ export USER=dbuser 
$ export PASS=dbpass 
$ ruby -r ‘./lib/jekyll/converters/typo’ -e ’Jekyll::Typo.process( \ “#{ENV[”DB"]}", “#{ENV[”USER"]}", “#{ENV[”PASS"]}")’

This code also has only been tested with Typo version 4+.

TextPattern

$ ruby -r ‘./lib/jekyll/converters/textpattern’ -e ’Jekyll::TextPattern.process( \ “database_name”, “username”, “password”, “hostname”)’

The hostname defaults to localhost, all other variables are needed. You may need to adjust the code used to filter entries. Left alone, it will attempt to pull all entries that are live or sticky.

CSV