De Nederlandse versie vind je hier!

Update: There’s a new version available, that was changed to work with WordPress 2.0. And since it’s a zip file rather than the HTML-ized source, it should be easier to download as well. I’ll adapt the documentation at a later time, but in the mean time here’s the quick howto:

• Dump this file in /wordpress/wp-admin/import/
• Have your pivot directory (with at least pv_cfg_settings.php and the ‘db‘ directory structure inside) ready and waiting inside your wordpress directory
• In WordPress, go to Import, choose Pivot, and follow instructions.

Easy peasy, right? Make sure you backup before you go, and let me know if it worked for you!

From here on, it’s the old documentation.

I wrote this one a while ago, but never bothered to publish it: an import script to import Pivot postings (and users, and categories) into an existing WordPress installation. Using it is pretty simple:

1. Make sure your WordPress install works, and that you have a working backup just in case.
2. Download the script here (right-click, save as…), rename it to import-pivot.php (without the trailing ‘s’), and upload it into your wp-admin directory inside your WordPress directory
3. Make sure the pivot directory (containing at least the db directory and the file pv_cfg_settings.php) are one level above your WordPress directory. If you installed WordPress in your site root (you know that that’s a bad idea, right?) you should open the script in a text editor and edit $pivotdir to match your situation. If the pivot directory is inside your wordpress directory, take one ../ out of $pivotdir.
4. Login as admin in WordPress, and run the script. Assuming a straight-up WordPress install, that should be something like yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/import-pivot.php.
5. Follow the instructions.

If stuff blows up, please let me know what went wrong (giving more details than “it didn’t work, you are TEH SUCK!”). Make sure you include any error message it threw at you.

Addendum: Of course there’s still the matter of images. Maybe I’ll have them translated automagically in the future, but for now you could do with the Pivot Image Tag Translator plugin. That’s a Dutch page, but all you have to do is download and install the plugin. Oh, and maybe edit it a bit, if the image path isn’t correct for your setup.

Have fun!

Deze pagina is op 25 november 2005 geplaatst, en voor het laatst bijgewerkt op woensdag, 30 december 2009.