How Can I Convert a SMF website into WordPress

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  sadiakomal · Member · Sep 3, 2010 at 5:08 am

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  How Can I Convert a SMF website into WordPress ?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 3, 2010 at 5:45 am

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  What is the URL of the site?

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  sadiakomal · Member · Sep 5, 2010 at 4:17 am

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  http://islamabadcommunity.com

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  sadiakomal · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 12:29 am

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  Hi, raincoaster pls give me suggestions

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 1:18 am

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  That is a forum, not a blog or regular, page-based website. I am afraid I have no idea.

  You could try to do an XML import, provided that website has an RSS feed for each thread. Otherwise, I think you’ll have to do copy/paste.

  Does it have an Export function? Because if it does, you can presumably just Export from there and Import into here. I have no idea what format the threads will come up in, though, because you are really converting apples to oranges here.

  It will NOT work as a forum once you’ve imported it here. As long as your readers know that, and that they won’t be able to post to it, then fine.

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  sadiakomal · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 9:28 am

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  Actually many search engine indexed pages of my website and I receiving 60% traffic from search engines.
  Once i converted SMF into wordpress I will set the same URL structure as em using currently, hope my SEO will not effect.

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 7, 2010 at 10:02 am

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  No, the URLs of WordPress.com will never be the same structure as the URLs of that site. All of the links will be broken. Every single one of them.