IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This article was published more than 2 (TWO) years ago. It has helped, apparently, quite a lot of people migrate to Wordpress. However, there are high chances it has become highly outdated or even harmful. Before trying the steps and script I described here, you should try to use the migration script included in Wordpress. Chances are it got updated in the last 2 years and is now better than this (old) script.
I’ve talked a bit about this before : in my years of blogging I switched from a Blogspot account to Livejournal and finally, in 2004, to a self-hosted stand-alone blog. The main criteria for my CMS-blogging engine back then was simple: does it have RSS? can I have several Sections; is it nice-looking? Textpattern had it all at the time and I went for it. But, after a while, Wordpress 1.5 came along and I started getting angry that it had all this power: plugins, community, easy-to-hack framework.
Bottom line, I’ve been dreaming for 2 years already to migrate my Textpattern blog into a Wordpress one, one that I could easily hack, extend and theme. Finally, the day before yesterday (March 31 2007) I pulled myself together and started doing it.
Have you ever wanted this? If so, then tough luck: the instructions over here suck; so does the info from this wp thread.
So, without much ado, here are my instructions on migrating Textpattern 4.0.4 to Wordpress 2.1:
