WordPress to NodeBB

[psychobunny]

yup unix timestamp. easily convertable like so:

Date.parse('2014-07-19 17:24:04'.replace(' ', 'T'));

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith What's your permalink structure set up like? Post Name? (In Settings > Permalinks)

[John Smith]

@a_5mith This is my permalink structure setup: /%category%/%postname%.html

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith Ok no problem, you will need to set that when you import, the plugin I'm creating gets your data in a format that nodebb-plugin-import can read. (In theory )

@psychobunny thanks, so in this case, it would be

+ prefix + 'Date.parse('comments.comment_date '.replace(' ', 'T')); as _timestamp, '

???

EDIT: That dark blue really doesn't work for syntax highlighting. I can't see half of it.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Wait. Did you just ask me what type do I want or what type I'm currently using. The one I just sent you is the current one.

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith Yeah that's fine, the import process is in two steps, what I've done gets you ready for the import plugin.

In fact, @bentael does your import plugin work on latest? I know you said it works up to a certain commit, but does it work beyond this?

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Hey, I was curious about the differences in domains. I mean like will the plugin work if my WP domain is abc.com and the NodeBB is efg.com? Will the 301 redirect work? and stuff like that.

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith You would need to redirect abc.com/%category%/%postname%.html to efg.com/%category%/%postname%.html then when you reached the efg.com domain, it would redirect you to the correct page.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Not sure if you get my question correctly. Okay, so let's say my current domain is abc.com and it's running on WordPress. I wanted to move the site to efg.com which is running on nodeBB. Will the redirect works like what you just mentioned?

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith I got what you said. I'll try and put it slightly differently.

A google search points to
abc.com/category/postname.html - this is your current wordpress site.

The redirect process basically looks like this:

topics: {
        oldPath: '<%=_category%>/<%= _postname %>.html',
        newPath: '/topic/<%= tid %>'
    },

the redirect to access the topic in NodeBB, will only work on it's own domain. So you would need to set up a redirect from abc.com/category/postname.html to efg.com/category/postname.html (even though no wordpress install exists) so that NodeBB will see efg.com/category/postname.html and redirect you to efg.com/topic/tid.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Thanks for the explanation. By the way, The direct process is 301 redirect right? Because I don't want to lose my ranking on Google as well as traffic.

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith 301 is moved permanently. So unless you plan on going back to abc.com at any point, 301 is the correct one to use.

EDIT: One thing you need to be aware of though is that Bing will not follow a stacked redirect*, however Google will. Bing will re-index your data on efg.com. Whereas Google will use the pagerank from abc.com.

*stacked redirect - Having 2 or more 301 redirects in a row.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith In my case, wouldn't it be 2?

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith Correct.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Any thing new?

[a_5mith]

@John-Smith Having a few issues getting a dev environment set up, but will let you know as soon as I have more info. I'm still quite new to NodeBB, so, I'm picking things up as I go along.

[John Smith]

@a_5mith Ok. thanks

[bentael]

@a_5mith said:

In fact, @bentael does your import plugin work on latest? I know you said it works up to a certain commit, but does it work beyond this?

as of 1 day ago, yes.

[bentael]

by the way, @John-Smith and @a_5mith

the importer will spit out links to create a redirect map.

see this issue for explanation: https://github.com/akhoury/nodebb-plugin-import/issues/29

[Hawon Nguyen]

@a_5mith How is the stuff going? Is it near the finish line yet?