Comments on: From pMachine Pro 2.3 to WordPress 1.5

By: Pardon our dust - News and Views

Pardon our dust - News and Views — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:13:11 +0000

[...] process since there is no pMachine-to-WordPress import script shipped with WordPress but I found one on the web and, after a bit of hacking and several cleanings of the WordPress database, I’ve managed to [...]

By: Bill Rowell » Migrating a pMachine Website to WordPress

Bill Rowell » Migrating a pMachine Website to WordPress — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:27:44 +0000

[...] I went for answers. Pretty quickly I found two articles about migrating pMachine to WordPress 1.5 here with some actual PHP code to import the pMachine blog here. So, I was off to a good [...]

By: DailyTechTalk goes Wordpress | DailyTechTalk

DailyTechTalk goes Wordpress | DailyTechTalk — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:19:02 +0000

[...] Well, it appears that someone has heard my cry and posted a script and another person posted a how-to for deploying the [...]

By: Shad’s Pad » Blog Archive » New Blog Tool

Shad’s Pad » Blog Archive » New Blog Tool — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:37:14 +0000

[...] Using the information found here, I had managed to get to the above state: where my archives were working fine, but the rest of it was acting wonky. Well, deleting the placeholder html file I created seem to fix it all. If anyone sees any problems, please let me know! [...]

By: Jaanus on the internet

Jaanus on the internet — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:27:12 +0000

Migrating a blog from pMachine to WordPress 2

I just helped someone to migrate from pMachine to WordPress 2. Now there’s this page available that walks and talks you through it and links to a script that supposedly does the conversion. The conversion seemed to go kinda fine,…

By: Fuzz Martin :: FuzzMartin.com » Blog Archive » Importing Posts from pMachine 2.4 to WordPress 2.0.1

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:26:56 +0000

[...] Oh, before I go – I do have another idea to migrate to WordPress, but it involves first installing WordPress 1.5, then migrating your posts to pMachine using this script, then upgrading WordPress to 2.0 (or whatever the latest version is when you’re reading this.) [...]

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:33:28 +0000

WP doesn’t support multiple blogs, but there’s nothing that prevents you from importing each pMachine blog into WordPress, then saving the imported blog from WordPress as a MySQL dump, and then importing the dumb into another install of WordPress elsewhere on the same server. (You can have multiple copies of WordPress on the same server. Just make sure each WP blog uses its own prefix for the MySQL tables.)

By: MishMish

MishMish — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:20:50 +0000

thank you…that makes sense & to be honest the existing one was just to learn WP anyway, so I wouldn’t mind if they overwrite.

my next problem is that I have multiple blogs on pMachine. can multiple blogs on pmachine be converted to WP? I know at present WP doesn’t support multiple blogs.

Honestly, I would like one to remain on pMachine (b/c I really like it the way it is) & only convert the other to WP, is that possible? If not, I would convert both if that can be done.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:32:39 +0000

MishMish: The obvious problem that you are going to get is that you’ll have two sets of entries with the same ID numbers. Each blog entry has its own ID and it starts at 1, so if you have, say, 100 entries in WP blog #1 and 200 entries in WP blog #2, importing WP blog #1 into WP blog #2 would replace the first 100 entries of WP blog #2 by the 100 entries of WP blog #1. At least that’s what I suspect.

So you are probably looking at getting a tool that can change the ID numbers of the existing entries so that they don’t conflict with the imported entries. (They would still be sorted properly by date and category and everything.) It might take some PHP skills. Your best bet is to ask the question in the WP forums.

Good luck!

By: MishMish

MishMish — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:19:48 +0000

can this be done w/ a pre-existing WP blog? I set up PixelFrame.Org/blog to “learn” WP to see if I wanted to move from pMachine. My personal blog is MishMish.Org. Now that I know I really like WP can this be used to move everything from mishmish.org to pixelframe.org/blog since it isn’t empty?

I still have to move mishmish.org b/c it’s being hosted on another server so pMachine isn’t installed on the same DB as WP, but after I move it is that possible?

By: Eshin Direct - Digital Nomad » Blog Archive » Move to WordPress

Eshin Direct - Digital Nomad » Blog Archive » Move to WordPress — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 23:10:01 +0000

[...] How did I do the conversion? Betalogue provides an excellent how-to in his post “From pMachine to WordPress” post. [...]

By: Shad’s Pad » Blog Archive »

Shad’s Pad » Blog Archive » — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:36:24 +0000

By: uno

uno — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:00:27 +0000

I have no idea. No clue what I can add to make it work. I’m not a programmer.

By: Pierre Igot

Pierre Igot — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:11:23 +0000

Not an expert here, but I cannot help but notice that there is mix of apostrophes and backticks in your stuff. I know that backticks as item enclosers are supported to some extent, but I don’t exactly know to what extent — and I don’t know whether mixing them with apostrophes works or not. Just a thought.

By: uno

uno — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 06:56:25 +0000

I keep getting errors like this when trying to import my comments with this script. Can ayone help me please?

# OK # Importing comments…
WordPress database error: [syntax error near '' at line 1]
SELECT signature, email, url, ipaddress FROM spm_members WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [syntax error near ')' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_author_IP, comment_date, comment_content, comment_approved, user_id) VALUES (1, ”, ”, ”, ”, ’2001-08-13 03:33:40′, ‘Hi…The song your refering to is absolutley beautiful…It\’s called \”Look On Down From The Bridge\” by Mazzy Star. The album is called \”Among My Swan\”. All Mazzy\’s albums are incredible and have the same feel to them. If you like the song you\’ll defintiley like the album. It\’s a singer named Hope….and her voice is beauty.
I guess i should say something about the Sopranos…I love it….and I have a crush on Tony Soprano…his confidence….power
Sonia’, ’1′, )

WordPress database error: [syntax error near '' at line 1]
SELECT signature, email, url, ipaddress FROM spm_members WHERE id =

WordPress database error: [syntax error near ')' at line 1]
INSERT INTO wp_comments (comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_author_email, comment_author_url, comment_author_IP, comment_date, comment_content, comment_approved, user_id) VALUES (1, ”, ”, ”, ”, ’2001-08-13 03:34:18′, ‘Hi…The song your refering to is absolutley beautiful…It\’s called \”Look On Down From The Bridge\” by Mazzy Star. The album is called \”Among My Swan\” All Mazzy\’s albums are incredible and have the same feel to them. If you like the song you\’ll defintiley like the album. It\’s a singer named Hope….and her voice is beauty.
I guess i should say something about the Sopranos…I love it….and I have a crush on Tony Soprano…his confidence….power
Sonia’, ’1′, )

email me@ webmaster@thesopranos.com if you can help me.