Matthew1471’s BlogX
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Hello,
I need to import a fairly large BlogX implementation into WordPress. The posts and categories are the important things, the sidebars, etc. can be recreated. I can’t find anything in Google for importing BlogX blogs.
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if i’m not wrong, the only places you can import from are Blogger / Typepad / MT / LJ. so sounds like you can’t import from your blogx.
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Never even heard of BlogX until today. Does BlogX have any means of exporting? If so, what formats can it do?
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As far as I can tell, BlogX is an early implementation of .Text. There’s nothing wrong with the blog as it is, it’s just that we’re moving from a Windows host to a Linux host and asp just doesn’t work as well under Linux/Apache as PHP does. Besides, WordPress is the best blogging tool out there. I may have to bite the bullet and continue running the blog under asp with our new host as it’s the only thing holding us back from flicking the switch. The rss feed would probably work but it would be huge, we’ve been blogging for years, and the urls would be different.
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Yeah, you probably don’t want to do RSS then. RSS seems to like putting in line breaks where they normally don’t go anyway.
Does RSS have a maxinum page width or something? Had wondered that because I see it on those blogs where we used daria.be to get blogs over here.
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Ah, if you’re going to host the blog yourself, you should head over to http://wordpress.org/support for any questions. We’re running a different version of the software, and our blogs are hosted at wordpress.com
Someone there might have an idea for you.
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I Found this topic on google.
As the creator of BlogX (the ASP version) I feel I ought to reply to this message :)
BlogX runs on a Access Database by default (unless of course you moved it to SQL Server or MySQL.. all of which i’m told is fairly painless to do)
So if WordPress provides a way to import from raw SQL (Access can export databases as SQL) you can try that.. Of course you would have to edit the raw SQL so that certain fields were matched up.. but if you find out what format it’s expecting I can gladly code something to that effect.
Alternatively you could export BlogX’s Access database to MySQL (which is what from http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup I think wordpress uses) again I think the best way to do this would be to use the exporting features in Access.. Once you have the database in MySQL you could change the structure to match that of what WordPress is expecting.
This article might help exporting from Access to MySQL :
http://www.kitebird.com/articles/access-migrate.htmlHope this helps and sorry to see you go,
Matt
(http://blogx.co.uk)p.s. There is a PHP port of ASP BlogX being made by a close friend but I havn’t tested it enough yet to consider recommending it
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As for the history of BlogX… there’s an ASP.Net BlogX which was created and provided by a Microsoft employee, Chris Anderson under the provision you don’t sue him if anything goes wrong with it.
He eventually gave up on it and .Text was created to pick up the pieces. I did not think ASP.Net was a valid, stable or beneficial programming language at the time (ASP.Net websites ran slower than their ASP counterparts) and thus coded my own port.. along the way I made many improvements and added many extra features which then formed my release.
The reason the old BlogX name has been kept is because the apperance is the same, but there is completely different programming languages in the background.
Matt
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Greets. Thanks for the reply. You’re not the first author to find their project talked about here. :)
Just for reference, we don’t run regular wordpress here at wp.com but WordPress Multiuser. You can review the differences in the “Please read me first” sticky if you’re interested.
Following up with the additional information, Mark and other staff members have taken MySQL dumps and been able to import them in the past. Best bet would be to send in a feedback from the dashboard and ask for this. Please don’t send in the *.sql file unless told to do so.
Thanks for the reply,
-drmike
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