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March 15, 2008 20:39 by Luke

Dont worry - the address and rss feed for my blog will remain the same. I have just moved from wordpress.com to hosting my own blog using BlogEngine.net. I just got too tired of the lack of customization available on wordpress.com.

I have to say, the move was much harder than I had anticipated. Getting my data out of wordpress.com and into BlogEngine.net required a bit of work. Wordpress exports your blog data in its own xml format which is not in the BlogML format that BlogEngine supports. I ended up writing some code to just parse through the wordpress xml file (using Linq to Xml of course) and insert the data straight into BlogEngine. If anybody is interested in the code, let me know and I can share it with you.


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May 21. 2008 13:53

Gar

Hi there,

i am planning the same kind of move - Can you post your code?

Cheers

Gar

August 20. 2008 09:47

indey

Hey hi..got here from codeplex..i'm trying to move my blog from wordpress to blogengine.net

If u can share the tool which you have written...it will be gr8

thanx,
indey

indey

November 27. 2008 12:52

Xochine

Luke,

I'm in the same boat. I'm interested in transferring my current WP.com site to BlogEngine.net for the following reasons:

Customization
I have greater interest in ASP.net than PHP.

I would really appreciate it if you could share the code you used to parse the XML files.

-Xo

Xochine

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