I’ve been running Drupal 6.x for this site since July last year and while I really loved the range of features (especially the ‘blocks’), it is time for a change. The regular ordeal of upgrading seemed to take forever and I could never get my cron jobs working properly.
So I’ve moved everything over to Wordpress. My theme transferred satisfactorily (although it is slightly different in the way it handles posts, I think it works better this way) and I used some excellent tutorials and scripts to move all my old posts over.
D’arcy Norman has an excellent tutorial in how to move from Drupal 5.x to Wordpress 2.x but unfortunately the script provided didn’t work with my version of Wordpress or MySQL. So I used the modifications made by Dovdox and did my own quick and dirty changes to get it to run on Wordpress 2.7. A bit of messing around and playing with the posts/categories and everything is working. Biggest tip I could give would be to use XAMPP to play with everything locally before uploading and trying it out on the real data.
Still have a bit of playing around to do to get it looking the way it should, but it did go considerably smoother than I had first anticipated.
