1 ozstephan Jan 10, 2007 22:12
3 techimi May 30, 2007 20:39
I hate to say it, but I've decided I'd like to move some of my blgos back off of b2evo. Since it's changing so often, there's no current WordPress import script around, and there's no export functionality to help me along either. Since I can't manage to get an save an RSS feed of our largest blog, which has about 300 posts, I'm currently stuck unless I want to repost it all.
4 oigreslima Feb 18, 2023 18:26
Hello everyone, sharing here a possible path for those who want to migrate their blog from b2evolution to a static system. (2023)
I chose pelican (https://docs.getpelican.com/) because it has native rss import support. I won't go into details (sorry, you'll have to read the documentation). But in short, follow these steps:
1) Install, on your server, pelican and the dependencies for the importer (generally a simple task on debian like systems with root access)
2) Generate blog rss every year (for blogs with many entries) http://yourblogaddress/year/?tempskin=_rss2
Save the file in a directory on the server that will receive the file
3) run the importer on this file: Unfortunately it puts the categories as tags. Either manually edit each general file or (if you know it, not my case) a script can automate it.
4) Generate the static pages in pelican
As I don't know programming, I'm going to migrate, little by little, from the most recent posts to the oldest ones!
5 nomad Feb 24, 2023 15:27
Hi @oigreslima thanks a lot! I was wondering about export options as well. How does the import of comments work? And usernames? (I have lots of comments that I don't want to miss)
It remember vaguely there was an export option to Movable Type format for b2evolution 7.0.2 or so which than can be used to import it to Wordpress (I read it somewhere but don't remember where).
As b2evolution doesn't support php8 and php7.4 is no longer supported and will be phased out by the hosters, we need a way to migrate.
EDIT: Export to xml (7.0.2) https://b2evolution.net/man/export-xml-zip
EDIT2 Francois moved his English blog to Hugo https://fplanque.com
6 amoun Feb 24, 2023 19:51
Hi
Have you seen my note, that the newer downloads I have do not have that option and there is no 7.0.2 ?
7 nomad Feb 24, 2023 20:06
8 oigreslima Feb 24, 2023 20:20
Hi @nomad. I haven't decided yet. But I think I'll put all the comments on a "history page" and try to import them in the future.
At the moment, from what I've researched, there isn't a ready way to import comments to the respective post, without getting into programming.
Unfortunately!
PS: I have already imported about 1000 blog entries. I haven't done the redirect yet (but I've tested it using htaccess and it worked).
Old blog: https://sfl.pro.br/blogs/index.php/sergio-blog/
New blog: https://sfl.pro.br/blog/
@nomad wrote earlier:
Hi @oigreslima thanks a lot! I was wondering about export options as well. How does the import of comments work? And usernames? (I have lots of comments that I don't want to miss)
It remember vaguely there was an export option to Movable Type format for b2evolution 7.0.2 or so which than can be used to import it to Wordpress (I read it somewhere but don't remember where).
As b2evolution doesn't support php8 and php7.4 is no longer supported and will be phased out by the hosters, we need a way to migrate.
EDIT: Export to xml (7.0.2) https://b2evolution.net/man/export-xml-zip
EDIT2 Francois moved his English blog to Hugo https://fplanque.com
9 nomad Feb 24, 2023 20:31
OK, thanks @oigreslima your new blog looks really good, very elegant!
You do this with a skin. Here are some instructions:
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?p=24736#24736