Moving from VB to Drupal - Possibly! please discuss merits with me
Greetings
My site [url=http://www.sportcityrider.com]SportCityRider - Motorcycle News, Blogs & Community[/url] is basically a Motorcycle community with a twist . emphasis on News in the industry.
I have been thinking of migrating the entire site over to a more traditional blog aka Joomla / Wordpress / Drupal.
The site is 1 years old, slowly getting ranked, but, It is not working out as I expected or hoped for. I want to change the platform around to be more of a Journalistic / News site with the ability for Reader comments.
What I wish to do is simply migrate my VB site, aka posts and vblogs to the new site. I want the site to be more of a Online Magazine / Journalistic approach.
Questions?
1: Is this possible with Drupal
2: how is it to be done :)
3: Can I migrate then convert the forums to blogs in Drupal?
Thank you in advanced, I look forward to the discussion, perhaps it may help others as well.
Part of my reasons is the new pricing that will go into effect with VB when 4.0 hits. I have invested a vew bucks in vblog and vbulletin and now will have to pay higher price if I want both still. Not happy with that....
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fwiw, I think you're definitely on the right track-- forum only sights are dinosaurs, lol.
I've never tried it, but you should checkout the http://drupal.org/project/vbtodrupal module for data migration. Note that the maintainer of that module migrated his webmaster forums from vb to drupal as well.
Once the content is in drupal, you probably could migrate them over to 'blogs' if you wanted, I'm just not sure why you'd want to. Once you get familiar with drupal and the fact that all content is a node of one form or another you'll see it often doesn't make much difference if a node a forum or a blog. In any case, checkout the http://drupal.org/project/node_convert module.
Also, depending on how much forum functionality you want to preserve, you may want to look at http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum and related modules. Drupal's core forum, as with everything core, is pretty much the bare essentials.
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Thanks WorldFallz I am
Thanks WorldFallz
I am working on testing this now, documentation is scarce so I will contact the author, but it seems straight forward. It may take me a week or so, but I will post up the How too.
I like Drupal already, it seems you can taylor it for any task
i have them same dilema , i
i have them same dilema , i am looking for a new platform for my blogs/websites , i am currently using wordpress on some of my blogs
[SPAM LINK REMOVED], but i feel it needs a new look and lift in it apperance , so is drupal the chioce for me , weel i think i will cinvert this site and see what happens. i will keep you updated on how i get on.many thanks Ruby xx
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FYI-- all you 'passive income' spammers are not fooling anyone with this garbage. Why not just get a real job-- or at least a life.
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