Extending our Site Importers
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One of the main things that will hold people back from porting over to C5 is the time it will take to import all of their existing content into C5.
Which brings us on nicely to the real topic of this post... Should we be looking at extending the Site Importers we have available?
We've got our backs covered on Wordpress (not sure how good it works, but it exists). What about the below?
- Joomla
- ModX (I hate this thing)
- TextPattern (only used it once or twice but still)
- Drupal
- Typo3
What other CMS's have you come across? Is it worthwhile all in all?
Which brings us on nicely to the real topic of this post... Should we be looking at extending the Site Importers we have available?
We've got our backs covered on Wordpress (not sure how good it works, but it exists). What about the below?
- Joomla
- ModX (I hate this thing)
- TextPattern (only used it once or twice but still)
- Drupal
- Typo3
What other CMS's have you come across? Is it worthwhile all in all?
In its nature it won't be used very often, it's more of an addon for growing the consumer base rather than lining our pockets.
By having them available, it reduces barriers that people come across when considering C5.
By having them available, it reduces barriers that people come across when considering C5.
Certainly, but as I said, we still wouldn't use it very often, if at all. It would be cool if we could just point at an URL and import that to concrete5. This would be a nice marketing thing.. Port 80% of the site with one click...
I did something like that before in C#. It's by far not finished but it could work (with a lot more effort). It basically took two pages of a site and analysed the containers to detect differences (the actual content) and put this in a content block of the main area. I thought about creating a complete converter which would create the theme as well, but there are just too many exceptions.. Would be cool, but it seemed like a never ending story (:
I did something like that before in C#. It's by far not finished but it could work (with a lot more effort). It basically took two pages of a site and analysed the containers to detect differences (the actual content) and put this in a content block of the main area. I thought about creating a complete converter which would create the theme as well, but there are just too many exceptions.. Would be cool, but it seemed like a never ending story (:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/general/cms-marketshare.php...
I can only tell from my point of view but mostly when we had a project which was running on a system like typo3 we did not only copy the content but also redesign the site.
We could import an existing site even if the design changes but quite often, the structure changes as well. I also had a problem once where all email links were broken because the old system used a mail address encryption which we couldn't import. We had query all pages with email addresses and fix them manually by clicking on it on the old page and copy the address. A lot of fun!
To me, only the wordpress importer could be useful. I still run my bloghttp://www.codeblog.ch using wordpress and I'm quite happy with it. There are a few things in concrete5 which I'd like but as long as I can't import it without reworking it, I'm probably going to be stuck with wordpress.
Long story short: I probably wouldn't buy or use such an add-on very often but I'm eager to hear what others think about this!