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For a while now, I wanted to migrate my blog from Wordpress to Octopress, but for some reason I kept putting it on the shelf and not doing it. (let’s say because of all those client related projects…). Finally last weekend I’ve completed the migration and I’m really excited to get back to blogging after this. This post is meant to capture some of the issues I’ve encountered during the migration and how to fix them. This is not a full how to migrate post, as there are many such great articles available already. Migrate old blog posts. Believe it or not, I had 364 blog posts when I started the migration. Meaning a lot of energy was spent in importing those old articles. I’ve used exitwp to convert the wordpress-xml export of the blog posts; and this produced a reasonably good result. Still I had to run some fixes… for code blocks: perl -pi -e 's/([^\`]|^)(\`)([^\`]|$)/$1\n\`\`\`\n$3/g' * to enable comments (as ‘comments: true’ was missing from all posts) find source/_posts/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I file sed -i '' '2 i \ comments: true' file Categories/Tags/URLs Enabled the octopress category list plugin and tags plugin, that you can see in the sidebar. Since I had already tags and categories on all posts it was very important to keep the same urls and not break them. Same thing for regular posts urls. Here are the relevant settings form the octopress config file: root: / permalink: /:year/:month/:day/:title/ category_dir: category tag_dir: "tag" Just keep in mind that if you have many tags as I do, the generation of the pages will increase a lot after you enable the tags plugin. You’ve been warned!