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WordPress is the official continuation of b2/cafélog, which came from Michel V. The work has been continued by the WordPress developers. If you would like to support WordPress, please consider donating.

Upgrading from another system

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WordPress can import from a number of systems. First you need to get WordPress installed and working as described above.

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WordPress can import from a number of systems. First you need to get WordPress installed and working as described above.

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XML-RPC Interface

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WordPress has an XMLRPC interface. We currently support the Blogger API, metaWeblog API, and the MovableType API.

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The metaWeblog and MovableType APIs are currently supported with the following exceptions:

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Extended entries in the MovableType API are automatically converted to/from the WordPress <!--more--> tag.

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You can now post to your WordPress blog with tools like BlogBuddy, Bloggar, WapBlogger (post from your Wap cellphone!), Radio Userland (which means you can use Radio's email-to-blog feature), Zempt, NewzCrawler, and other tools that support the Blogging APIs! :)

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Your XMLRPC server/path are as described here: if you login to WordPress on http://example.com/me/wp-login.php, then you have:

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You can now post to your WordPress blog with tools like Ecto, BlogBuddy, Bloggar, WapBlogger (post from your Wap cellphone!), Radio Userland (which means you can use Radio's email-to-blog feature), Zempt, NewzCrawler, and other tools that support the Blogging APIs! :) You can read more about XML-RPC support on the Codex.

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Post via Email

You can post from an email client! To set this up go to your "Writing" options screen and fill in the connection details for your secret POP3 account. Then you need to set up wp-mail.php to execute periodically to check the mailbox for new posts. You can do it with Cron-jobs, or if your host doesn't support it you can look into the various website-monitoring services, and make them check your wp-mail.php URL.

Posting is easy: Any email sent to the address you specify will be posted, with the subject as the title. It is best to keep the address dicrete. The script will delete emails that are successfully posted.

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Final notes

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Share the Love

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WordPress has no multi-million dollar marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, but we do have something even better—you. If you enjoy WordPress please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgable than yourself, or writing the author of a media article that overlooks us.

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Copyright

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WordPress is released under the GPL (see license.txt).

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WordPress is released under the GPL (see license.txt).

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