Comments on: Migrating from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress

By: Andrea Moro

Andrea Moro — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:39:50 +0000

Craig,

You won a beer. I was giving up while importing from DotNetBlog engine, while I say, let me try to add these lines he suggest …
ini_set(“memory_limit”,”146M”);
ini_set(“max_execution_time”, “300″);
ini_set(“max_input_time”, “300″);

And that solved the problem.
Thanks man.

By: Craig Bailey

Craig Bailey — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:16:52 +0000

Hi George. Hmmm I can’t think what is causing this.
Feel free to email me your xml file if you like and I’ll take a look. I suspect it will be something to do with the xml rather than something on your environment.
But, just to check – are you running this on Apache, or on IIS?

By: George

George — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:58:46 +0000

For some reason I keep getting this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/ringof/public_html/wp-admin/import/blogml.php on line 126

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/ringof/public_html/wp-admin/import/blogml.php on line 133

Anyone else running into this?

The file is very small so I am not sure what the issue is.

Please help.

George

By: Craig Bailey

Craig Bailey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:51:26 +0000

Hmmm…
I checked my upload directories and DID find a copy of the xml file converted into a text file, so that must be part of the process. And also shows that the start of the process is working for you. I’m not sure why it is bombing out for you though.
Is yours a big file? If so, perhaps you might try trimming it down to a really small sample, just to test the process. I know I had memory issues initially, and had to increase the limits (as per my Step 7). However, my process did show me an error message – unlike yours which doesn’t seem to be saying anything, so this is just a guess.

By: Christof

Christof — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:12:38 +0000

Hi Craig
Yes, I went through the import feature in the WP admin interface. I choose Blog ML, indicated the file and clicked on upload and import. The page was reloaded but then there was only the title Import BlogML. No error message at all. It almost looked like something was missing or not displayed correctly.

When I checked the filesystem I found the blogml file as text file in the upload folder.

By: Craig Bailey

Craig Bailey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:04:48 +0000

Hi Christof.
Just checking, when you imported the XML file (Step 8 in my list above), in WordPress did you go to:
Tools -> Import -> BlogML
If you did it should have walked you through the rest of the process.
I’m wondering if you did something else?
I’ll update my list above to make it clearer.

By: Christof

Christof — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:18:25 +0000

Hi
I tried to import the blogml file with my former blogengine.net posts. however it is just uploaded to the corresponding folder: wp-content/uploads/ but the posts are not imported. when i have a look in the directories I see that the xml file has been changed into a txt file.
Any ideas why?

By: Craig Bailey

Craig Bailey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:19:10 +0000

Thanks Wayne,
Yes, feel free to add a link to your post if you think it will provide help for readers.
Links in old BE.NET comments came across fine (both in commentor names, and in the comment text).

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:04:55 +0000

I concur with Mark, you won’t look back. I haven’t either.

How did the links in your existing comments on posts turn out? I’d be happy to provide a link to my post on getting the images transferred if you’d like.

I switched due to GoDaddy’s unlimited web site package failing to take into account that .net sites need their own app space…

By: Mark Cohen

Mark Cohen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:47:09 +0000

You won’t look back. On either Dreamhost or Wordpress. Both rock.