I made the decision to migrate this site to WordPress from Graffiti CMS. I spent a little bit of time writing my own custom Graffiti CMS to WordPress export tool, shaping the Graffiti data to match the WordPress WXR format.
What I didn’t test prior to all of that work was, would WordPress work with Windows Live Writer. I knew it supported XMLRPC, so I thought I was safe. Turns out, there was an issue with posting images (or any attachments).
I posted a Twitter message and Brandon from the Windows Live Writer team contacted me to see if he could help resolve the issue. I decided to look around a little more and found this great post, Fix for WordPress XMLRPC 500 Internal Server Error.
Turns out, newer installs of WordPress define a column in the database as a BIGINT UNSIGNED. Older WordPress installs don’t setup the column in this manner and that’s what caused the problem. The fix is simple. On your WordPress database, run the following SQL:
ALTER TABLE wp_posts CHANGE post_parent post_parent BIGINT;
I tried it on a test install of WordPress and it worked! I’m happy to post that I’m fully moved over to WordPress.
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wow well done I wish I could achieve the move like you. Im hoping to go to wordpress hosted blog as well, any pointers on moving off the graffiti to wordpress?
thanks