Andrew Beaton :: Blog

B2 to Wordpress Conversion…

by Andrew on Feb.11, 2009, under General

I recently had to ugrade an old B2 blog to Wordpress. A couple of years ago this would have been an easy task as B2 was just coming to an end and Wordpress becoming more popular. Unfortunately, that was in 2005 and wordpress have since removed this feature from their code. I feel I left that blog out there for a bit too long.

I’m suprised that being so old it hadn’t been hacked to death by now, maybe the changes I made to the admin system prevented that or maybe it was the fact that people found the content so interesting, they did not want to break it. :)

Anyway, it took me a while to find this site as I doubt there are many B2 blogs still out there, but if you want to upgrade to the latest Wordpress database format then simply follow the instructions on this website.

It took me about an hour to find the script, five minutes to run it and now the new website is up and running with all the old comments and posts.

So a big thanks to Aral Balkan for spending the time creating this script for us B2 oldies. :)

1 comment for this entry:
  1. Aral Balkan
    February 13th, 2009 on 5:39 pm

    You’re welcome, Andrew :) Happy to hear that it worked for you; quite surprising given how much Wordpress has changed since I wrote it :)

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