mirgrating from wordpress to serendipity

[jwxie518]

I have been a wordpress user for a few years. I want to move from wp to serendipity.

i wonder if there is an existing plugin or tutorial on this?

thanks

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Serendipity comes with an importer module, that imports your wordpress database structure with entries, categories, authors.

This can directly connect to your existing wordpress database and fetch the data.

What you do on top of that is up to you, like adding new plugins that do similar stuff then before, you might also need to FTP-upload the files you linked in your old installation, add some URL rewriting so that old URLs are moved to new URLs (or you change your serendipity permalink structure to match the old one, if possible).

The import only accesses WordPress with read-access. So you could try to install serendipity parallely on your webserver, in a different directory. Then you can play around with things until all is well, and then you make the switch...?

Regards,
Garvin

[jwxie518]

Hi. Thank you for your input and time to reply.
I will try it once this weekend. Thank you.