Painlessly Migrate from Wordpress to Drupal

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to migrate content from Wordpress to Drupal.

Versions in use: Wordpress 3.3.2 & Drupal 7.12

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Step by Step Instructions

1. Login to your Wordpress Admin

• Navigate to Tools → Export
• Download WXR File containing "All content"

2. Make sure your XML file is valid using xmllint on the command line (Wordpress Migrate is particular about having valid XML)

• xmllint comes preinstalled on OSX
• Open terminal and type xmllint mywordpressexport.xml
• All XML errors will be shown (line number and exact location)
• Make appropriate fixes to the XML
• If you run xmllint mywordpressexport.xml and the entire file prints to the screen, your XML is valid!

3. Install the appropriate Drupal modules

• Migrate - robust Drupal module for migrating all sorts of content
• Wordpress Migrate - Migrate submodule that allows you to perform a Wordpress migration without writing code!
• Migrate Extras - provides functionality to import clean URLs using Pathauto
• Pathauto - provides functionality to have clean URLs in Drupal

4. After logging into Drupal navigate to the Find Content screen & click the Wordpress Migration tab in the upper right
5. Choose Import from a File

• Select your valid XML file from your computer
• If necessary, adjust import settings below
• Choose immediate import method unless you have a really large dataset (they have options for using Drush for a "background" import)

6. Migration Complete!

• Navigate to Find Content to ensure your data was properly imported.

Caveats

• Authors are not currently migrated
• Wordpress images will still have the old path (this can be solved by doing a find and replace in your XML file before importing)