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Some things to consider prior to importing.

• Mapping of WP users to Drupal users
• Taxonomy vocabulary that will hold the WP categories and tags
• Node types for blog entries and pages
• Input format for posts and comments
• Whether or not the old URLs must be redirected to new ones

Think about all these things before you start the migration. Users, content types and taxonomies are especially important considerations. If things aren't setup correctly and you go ahead with the import many headaches can result. For that reason it's a best practice to make a database backup prior to actually migrating. You can always restore the original database and redo the import if things go wrong.

Import Typepad

Although this module is meant for Typepad/Movable Type blogs I used it to import "journals" (which are basically individual blogs) from Squarespace. To get started you need an export file for each journal that is generated on your Squarespace account. To generate the export file you need to put the journal into structure editing mode, then select Configure This Page, and scroll down to the Data Export section. There is a button there that says "Export Blog Data". Pushing that button generates the file that you will download and then upload using the Import Typepad module. The data that will be imported will be the posts (title and description), and the categories. The date and time of the posting will be preserved as well.

With your various export files in hand you then need to navigate to /admin/content/import_typepad on your Drupal site. There are three things that you need to have set up prior to importing.

1. Content types
2. Taxonomy vocabulary
3. Users

Unlike the WP module there is no automatic user mapping. You will simply select an existing user to assign import posts to. The actual import itself is a 2 step process. In step 1 you select the export file to upload, select the content type to import to, and also select the taxonomy to import categories to. In the next step you see a preview of what the imported content will look like on your site, along with the categories that will be imported. You also map the content to a Drupal user at that time. When you're ready you click an Import button and then wait for a message indicating that the import is complete.

What is Drupal and why you should use it

Maybe you've heard about Drupal somewhere, maybe a friend told you about it, or maybe you just saw some cool website and found out it has been made with Drupal.

Basic Drupal site configuration

Here I will point out some things that should be done by yourself after you have installed Drupal. It's a basic Drupal site configuration - some things that I always do when I create new Drupal website.

How to make Drupal piece of content that refreshes itself every 24 hours

yet it can come very handy and useful sometimes. For one website, I needed to make one part on the frontpage to display teaser of random article, and refreshes itself every 24 hours. Easy, I thought, I could use block_cache module and that's all.

Using tags and tagclouds to describe your content in Drupal

Tags and tagclouds are all over the web nowadays. Almost every blog or website has it. Setting up a tagging system in Drupal is very easy. If you are using Drupal as a weblog, this might be a great feature for your website. Heck, it is a great feature even if you're not using Drupal as blog.