The pages of this chapter merely indicate what changes occurred for each version.

The next version (1.04) of the converter will be out soon. This will include some bug fixes and slightly improved progress meter.

The bug fixes are:

1. Titles of posts now correctly display symbols whereas as before html code appeared in lieu of the symbol eg. £ appeared instead of the symbol £ and so on.
2. The same process, as above, is applied to the user name of the comments table.
3. Included additional option, the setting of the filter format for comments.
4. Corrected the category hierarchy, under certain conditions sub-categories were not being recorded accurately. This has been addressed.
5. Comment headings to be created, first four or five words of the comment to be the comment heading.
6. Not that this will be overly noticeable, but the thread field of the comments table is now correctly populated with Base 36 (Vancode) numbers.

Improved Progress Window

Created two additional progress bars to the Importing Progress Window. Included now are progress bars relating to comments per post and the assigning of categories to posts. All bars should tick over at a constant rate, at least the user knows something is happening.

Status

The only bug fix left at this stage pertains to the the comment heading aspect. Hopefully that will be addressed within the next few days, when done, I'll upload.

By all means report all problems or issues here.

As promised the Wordpress to Drupal 6.x converter (Version 1.03) is now available for download.

What's new.

• Conversion to 5.x and 6.x
• Filter Formats specifically retrieved from Drupal
• More flexibility re - Content types, Promote to Front page and published
• Teasers created re - <!--More--> tag
• More thorough snapshot of the Wordpress database

For full details see the manual.

This particular screen is more for informational purposes and should be self-explanatory.

Wordpress uses a number of status types for posts and those status types are retrieved and displayed in the left column of the above two column list. The process of assigning values is as per post types to content types.

These Wordpress types correspond to the Drupal published information. Your only choices are either the corresponding status type is either published or not.

If all the content type, promote to front page and published information has been input then the 'Import' button will become active. At this point the conversion can take place.

From here is where we can associate Drupal content types to Wordpress post types. The left column is populated from your Wordpress database and lists all the post types used and available. Columns two and three relate to Drupal content types and 'Promote to Front Page' settings. Initially, these columns will be empty.

In order to assign corresponding values to the Wordpress post types, merely click on a Wordpress post type and you will note that the post type is displayed in a separate field below the post type column. This particular field is not editable but the drop down boxes to the right are and is where selections are made and ultimately assigned to the Wordpress post type by clicking the 'Assign' button.

Upon assigning values corresponding to the Wordpress post types, they will be displayed in the list. All post types must be accounted for.

The Drupal content types are retrieved from your Drupal database. If a particular content type is not present, ie Blog, then it's just a matter of adding the blog module to your system, via Drupal. Likewise, if you prefer other content types, simply create them within Drupal, then return to the importer and they will be available to be selected.

Wordpress 2.5 to Drupal 6.x, is about to be released. It will be included in the next version, that being 1.03, which will also retain conversion to Drupal 5.x. That is, there will be an option, convert to 5.x or 6.x.

For feature requests by all means ask for them here.