For quite awhile now, I’ve been monitoring a specific blog post from May 15th, 2007 which is a tutorial on how to migrate from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2. Many things have changed since then between both pieces of software and thus, the scripts provided on the site will not work.

Every now and then, someone publishes a comment that contains a link to an updated version of the script to work with newer versions of Drupal and WordPress. DovDox is the latest blog to publish an updated portion of the script albeit with a caveat.

Taking my usual hacksaw-and-duct-tape approach, I simply deleted the portions that didn’t work. That means my version moved all of the posts and comments to the new blog, but didn’t preserve any of their categories. Drupal’s ridiculous “taxonomy” system just isn’t easy to map onto Wordpress’s much more rational categories and tags, and in any case the hard part of the move was getting the posts and comments over.

DovDox takes the script and makes it so that the content and comments are transfered between a Drupal 5.9 installation into a WordPress 2.6 install but due to the taxonomy system, categories are not migrated. If you choose to use the script provided by DovDox, be aware that it may cause a loss of data so be sure to back up everything before you do anything.

I wanted to put the call out to the community to see if anyone knew of a script or an individual that is consitently producing a migration script to move from Drupal to WordPress. If so, I’ll edit this post and add those resources to the bottom. I’ll also try to place those resources in the WordPress Codex.

In this episode:

We’re joined by Mark Jaquith, WordPress Ninja at b5media and core developer.
We discuss the release of WordPress 2.6.5, which fixes for a very obscure security bug and three more bugs.
We warn of a bogus WordPress 2.6.4 version out there.
We congratulate Ben Dunkle and Verena Segert, winners of the Project Icon contest.
We weigh in [...]

New Plugins

Add to Feed

Add to Feed is a feed enhancement plugin that allows you to easily add a copyright notice and custom text/HTML to your WordPress blog feed. The custom text can be entered before and/or after the content of your blog post.

Amazon Plugin

Amazon shop plugin that allows a blogger to add products with Amazon associate ID embedded in it and earn revenue by showing Amazon products right into the blog posts.

Related Blog Links

This WordPress plugin will display the blog links related to your posts and pages.

Techytube XHTML

This plugin allows you to embed YouTube videos on your blog.

ZD YouTube FLV Player

Display FLV and YouTube Video in you blog in a Custom Player.

WordPress Gallery Slideshow

This plugin adds the JW Image Rotator to the WordPress Media.

Easy AdSenser

Easy AdSenser provides a very easy way to insert Google AdSense code into your existing blog posts.

Feed Comments Number

Add an image that displays the number of comments to your feed items.

Updated Plugins

Formbuilder

The FormBuilder plugin is a WordPress plugin that allows the blog or website owner to easily and quickly create forms for display on their sites.

SendFeed

The SendFeed Plugin for WordPress allows you to send your latest post from your RSS feed to an external Mailing List Manager in both text and HTML formats.

AmazonFeed

This plugin will allow you to turn your WordPress website or blog into a money making machine while at the same time offering valuable additional related materials to your visitors. It will automatically search for and display products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topics you write about.

Quiz

Authors can write a new Quiz question and answer for each post, fall back on a default question, or have no question at all. Commenters must correctly answer the question before their comment is submitted.

CaPa Protect

Protects Categories, Pages and Posts for specific users & anonymous visitor.

Side Content

Side Content enables you to create widgets which have different content on different pages.

Easy LaTeX

Easy LaTeX provides a very easy way to display math and equations in your posts.

WP-DONATORS

Wp-Donators offer a smart donation function to auto-leave the sponsor information in a container after payment. Sponsor can donate and submit name/URL or TextLink ad, the information of the latest donors are displayed in the cloud. The more a person donations, the bigger their link will be.

Useful 404’s

Create more useful 404 error pages, including email notifications for bad links.

Episode 31 of WordPress Weekly featured a special 1 hour 26 minute interview with none other than Lisa Sabin Wilson, the author of WordPress For Dummies. Keith and I grilled Lisa on the topics of:

• Writing a book for a piece of software which has an extremely fast development cycle
• How different versions affect the publishing of the book
• WordPress For Dummies The Second Edition
• Lisa’s thoughts on WordPress 2.7
• Lisa’s explanation on permalinks and slugs
• Lisa’s take on premium themes versus free themes
• much, much, more.

Keith and I really enjoyed our time with Lisa and wish her the best for the second edition of WordPress For Dummies.

Announcements: The two lucky recipients who will each receive a signed copy of WordPess For Dummies 2nd Edition are Chris Thompson and Lenire.

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Journalized v2

Journalized is a one, two or three column theme available in six different themes, with threaded and paged comments with an administration interface.

Wasteland

It’s a 5 Column (main content, 2 sidebars and 2 top sections), widget-ready fixed width theme in soothing Creme and Brown colors featuring an author box, author info page, gravatars and with Custom Archives, Sitemap and full width No Sidebars page templates.

Underground

Fixed width, three columns, widget ready theme

Weblog Magazine Theme

Widget ready, three columns, fixed width theme with adsense / advert ready areas which are easily edited for ease of use and monetization. Available in 10 colors.

Here in the states, it is Thanksgiving. The time of year when most stop to think about what it is they are thankful for. In keeping with that tradition, I wanted to give my thanks to the WordPress development team but the thanks doesn’t end there. I also pass on my thanks to each and every one of you who have contributed code to the WordPress project. I’m no coder and I appreciate those who are to help guide me around the more interesting parts of WordPress. A very special thanks goes out to plugin and theme developers. You folks really enable end users to take WordPress up to the next level. I would also like to give thanks and recognize those who cover WordPress within the community. These are sites which keep users informed, provide great information, and increase the end users knowledge of what this piece of software is capable of doing. Each time I go to work on the weekend, I remind myself how thankful I am to those who produce podcasts centered around WordPress. Without these podcasts, my 9PM - 5AM shift would be extremely boring.

Despite everything that is going on within the world of content publishing, the fact remains that WordPress is still the easiest way to publish content onto the web. For that alone, I think is worthy of being thankful.

If you feel thankful for WordPress or any aspect of the project, join in the tradition of giving thanks by means of commenting. Tell us what it is your thankful for as it relates to WordPress.

New Plugins

WP-Niceforms

Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

K2 Hook Up

K2 Hook Up exposes the seven hooks in K2 theme to the admin as friendly input boxes, where you place any HTML, CSS, JavaScript or PHP code (including template tags, other WordPress functions, or even code from other plugins) that you like.

Custom Post Template

Provides a drop-down to select different templates for posts from the post edit screen. The templates replace single.php for the specified post.

SuperSlider-Show

Animated Gallery slideshow uses Mootools 1.2 javascript replaces WordPress gallery with a slideshow.

Use Google Libraries

A number of the javascript libraries distributed with WordPress are also hosted on Google’s AJAX Libraries API. This plugin allows your WordPress site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.

Chitika | Premium

This plugin will automate adding Chitika|Premium to your blog posts. Chitika|Premium is an AdSense Alternative/Compatible search targeted ad solution.

AmazonFeed

This plugin enables you to automatically advertise products from Amazon.com which are specifically related to the topic you are writing about.

Addynamo

Display Addynamo ads before, after or in the middle of a post without modify the theme. This plugin inserts and embeds the code into your website.

Simple Social Bookmarking Plugin

Will add bookmark icon for each post and page to share with popular social bookmarking sites.

Updated Plugins

Webcollage

Displays a collage or quilt of screen shots of the websites that you link or specify in your WordPress blogroll. After installing and activating the plugin, insert the tag “[webcollage]” (without quotes) in any post or page where you’d like to display the collage. Webcollage uses websnapr.com’s screen shot generation service.

FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin

This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files from the WP DB Backup Plugin of Austin Matzko, Scott Merril and other authors. With the standard WP Database Backup plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local harddisk.

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

JS AntiSpam

Simple antispam plugin without questions on Javascript-solution. Without JS-Solutions give it an textbox.

Breadcrumb NavXT

Adds breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature.

CompactRSS

This plug-in makes it possible to exclude certain parts of your posts in your feeds.