This rake task helps convert your Mephisto blog to WXR so you can import your articles and comments into WordPress.
Clone this repository from GitHub:
git clone git://github.com/spectra/mephisto-to-wxr.git
Copy wxr.rake to your Mephisto instance:
cp mephisto-to-wxr/wxr.rake /path/to/my/app/lib/tasks
Export your articles to WXR:
rake wxr:export MEPHISTO_SITE="mysite.com" > mysite.wxr
Remember to set your RAILS_ENV. Maybe you should run it like this:
RAILS_ENV=production rake wxr:export MEPHISTO_SITE="mysite.com" > mysite.wxr
Also, you may not have uuidtools (or you might have an old Ruby/Gems environment). If that's so, you can use any tool that generate a UUIDv4 (or any other unique scheme that you like) instead. For using uuidgen (from e2fsprogs or package uuid-runtime in Debian, for instance), here is an example:
UUIDGEN=/usr/bin/uuidgen rake wxr:export MEPHISTO_SITE="mysite.com" > mysite.wxr
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