Comments on: Migrating from BlogEngine.Net to WordPress

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:45:57 +0000

I am also trying to do this as I have a blog on blogengine that is over 300 posts.

Where can I find this:

“Export to BlogML” tool in BlogEngine.Net

Is this tool within the backend of the blogengine blog or within the file manager of my hosting?

Would appreciate the help

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By: Chris Deweese

Chris Deweese — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:49:31 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I’m getting ready to go through the same process from BlogEngine to WP. Having some issues with BE on my hosting account and its doing funky things with links and some features aren’t working right so I’m gonna head to WP. Plus I have buddy who can help with a nice WP theme.

Cheers!

By: Владлен

Владлен — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:55:30 +0000

С Днем тестировщика! С праздником!

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:07:15 +0000

Where is it going wrong? Are you getting any error messages?

I haven’t tried this with any of the newer versions of WordPress, but it should, theoretically, work.

By: Chris McQueen

Chris McQueen — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:52:57 +0000

So, I’m having a hard time getting this to work with WordPress 2.8.4. You wouldn’t by chance have any suggestions or know of any reasons things would work?

I appreciate any help you can give.

By: my girlfriend blog

my girlfriend blog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:28:02 +0000

I think writing your own blog engine is a great idea. And the best part is that you don’t have to bother with someone else’s list of required features. You code it to your needs and leave the rest out. Then add more features as you need them.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:07:25 +0000

Good question. I’ve migrated platforms a couple of times now (first dasBlog then BlogEngine.net and now WordPress), and have had to deal with this issue each time.

When going from dasBlog to BlogEngine.net, I implemented a redirect and manually set up all of the links. This time, however, I just focused on making sure that the major search engines would quickly point to my new urls. I did this by setting up a new XML sitemap and feeding its url to all of the search engines. On top of this, I made sure that I had a good 404 page in place. In my opinion, if a user comes into your site via a dead link, they will stick around as long as there is an easy way for them to find the content they are looking for.

In the end, I wasn’t too worried about losing traffic. If this is a priority for you, you’ll probably want to find a more elegant approach.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:50:45 +0000

How did you manage all your indexed content on the search engines? A link to *.aspx is invalid once you do this, so did you just ignore this, or was there something else you did to maintain all your indexed content?

I’m looking at doing the same transition, and many of my posts are doing really well in Google and I’d rather not lose all that effort by making the transition without accommodating those links somehow.

Also, last thing I want to do is create a URL rewrite for each and every bit of indexed content. That would be a real pain. lol

Good stuff, thanks for sharing it.

By: Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:24:52 +0000

Nice… thanks for the info. I did this and everything seemed to import fairly well with the exception of the category names… they’re all ID’s or something.