Moving from b2evo to Wordpress

After much deliberation, I’ve decided to migrate from the b2evo blog engine to Wordpress blog engine for reasons that would bore you. Suffice to say, it was not easy to move all the entries and all your delicious comments over. Fortunately, with my geekish Google skills, I’ve managed to track down a script that converts all these for me.

A side effect of this is that it has given me a virtual gender change – all the old posts are as if it was authored by “pam” when in fact she is the very first registered user on my old blog.  Not to worry, I should be back to normal very soon.

I know Google search results will bring one or two visitors here, so I’m kindly providing the following techie information for them.

I was using version b2evo 1.8.2 and Wordpress 2.2 at the time. The script was actually designed for a later b2evo version and an earlier version of Wordpress but worked just fine here.

You can read all about it at this blog which include the scripts and their various revisions. What the site DOESN’T say is that if you use any of the revisions, rename the revised file back to b2evo2wp.php as it is hardcoded into the script to default to that filename as you go through the motions.