Going to import a Drupal site into WP – need advice

I am in the process of doing the exact same thing.

I have been successful mass importing (via sql query) a custom taxonomy. I created the taxonomy first via the MB Custom Taxonomy and added a parent and child term to have an example to work from.

How many post types do you have? I just created all the post types “manually” as it was easier than writing a script.

Let me know if you want help or if you have tips for me. ??

How did you get Parent and child terms using MB Custom Taxonomy? I saw no “parent” box when I entered all the terms in tonight. I need some to be child terms under other categories.

How did you “enter all the terms in”?

Possibly what has happened was when you were creating the taxonomy you forgot to click the Advanced box and then check the box that says “Hierarchical?”.

If Hierarchical is not checked, the taxonomy will not allow for the parent-child relationship.

Essentially, what this plugin is doing is giving you a nice, pretty GUI to create what you could be creating in code with register_taxonomy

Hope that helps!

Oh thank you, there it is, under “Advanced”. Now I have the Parent pull-down.

I entered the terms by creating a test post and adding all the categories to that one post. That put it all in the system.

Ok than that probably solved your issue, correct?

The reason I asked about how you entered your terms was because if you had done it through the database, like I did because I have a lot of terms, it can produce some strange results. You have to also add a record to the _options table, that has the option name of <your-tax-name>_children and an option_value of a JSON encoded array of the children ids. If you don’t do this, when you view the admin page for your taxonomy, none of the children will show on the screen, even though they actually exist. Just a strange thing I discovered.

We had to change direction and not import the database. There were tables missing that were needed for conversion scripts, so it was determined we’d just cut-and-paste content. We don’t have the time or know-how to do intense database surgery. Not the way we wanted to go, but it allows for better content inspection. So we’re basically rebuilding the site.

OK, let me know if you run into anything interesting.

Also be careful when you’re doing the cut-and-paste of content. Especially of the images and links. Things may change where they are located and the src’s of images might point to your old site which will make the images appear to be loading correctly until you turn your old site off and they are no longer there. You have to replace all images with those from the Media Library. There are ways to mass import media into the library. Let me know if you want more information. Are you hosting wordpress yourself?

I already moved copies of all the image folders from the current site to the uploads folder. For copy-paste we’re going to keep the current URL, but when we go live with the new site, we’ll edit out “/files/” and replace it with “/wp-content/uploads/” during a database edit from the dashboard so it all gets changed universally.

We’re using a shared provider for the hosting.