As promised here, this is a follow-up post with the tool I developed for the SharePoint to WordPress migration.

First, a screenshot:

What is it, that we have to cover with a migration? Copying the posts is not enough. So I came up with this features:

Features

• Copy posts
• Copy comments
• Copy resources like images and downloads
• Create needed tags and categories
• Modify links to local resource
• deal with https, if links are absolute on the source blog and mixed with http
• Using web services to connect to source and destination
• URL rewriting (covered by a WordPress Plugin)
• Delete all content from the destination blog (for migration testing)
• Replace strings (with Regex)
• a nice (WPF) GUI

Description

Originally I’ve build a plain console application. Then I thought that a console application would possibly scare some users. And after some time I wanted to do some WPF again. So I created a WPF application, to wrap all the functionality into a GUI. This way it will be easier to use for the folks out there, who do not like black console applications 😉 Since I am using web services to connect to both blogging platforms, the tool can be executed on any client computer. No access to a server session is required.