wp2octopress.py is an ETL (extract, transform, load) script which will connect to your Wordpress MySQL database and dump all of your posts and pages into Octopress-compatible Markdown files. The primary purpose of the script is simply to dump the posts into appropriately-named files with a reasonably correct directory structure; very little processing is done on the actual post content to ensure correct rendering.
Wordpress posts are stored internally as mostly HTML, although there are some
quirks - in particular, generally WordPress does not include <br />s or
<p>s;
those seem to be added when the page is output. This HTML format is basically
what you'll get in your dumped posts. There is a function called
fix_post_content which does a couple things to clean up posts and try to make
them render nicely in Octopress:
\r\nnewlines are replaced with just\n[sourcecode]tags are replaced with their Octopress equivalent
If you want to do additional automated cleanup, just edit that function and add whatever you'd like. If you add something useful, please send me a pull request so that others can benefit from it!
wp2octopress.py depends on SQLAlchemy. You can
install it
easily via pip (pip install SQLAlchemy) or easy_install (easy_install SQLAlchemy).
In general I've found that Octopress does a good job of rendering the posts directly from the Wordpress HTML, which is why I didn't put much effort into fixing up the content. However, there are a few things to watch out for.
- Complex nested structures may not render correctly. In particular, I've
noticed that
<code>blocks and<blockquotes>within<li>s can look messy. - This script replaces
[sourcecode]blocks, but not<code>blocks. This is generally okay since inline code in Markdown converts to<code>blocks anyway, but if you have a lot of inline code you should check that everything looks right. - Separate lines of text with only one line break rather than two will render as one paragraph.
- This script doesn't replace HTML entities (e.g.
&) with their corresponding characters. HTML entities within[sourcecode]or[code]blocks will be rendered literally. - Sometimes Wordpress seems to insert extra
<br />s for no apparent reason. - This script doesn't handle uploaded content, so you'll need to manually re-upload and fix the references for any images, videos, etc. that you uploaded through the Wordpress interface.
Just run ./wp2octopress.py db host username password posts_dir pages_dir.
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