Title: Upgrading from textpattern Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Upgrading from textpattern * Stephan * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/) * I am currently running my site on textpattern, but due to several missing features I want to upgrade to wordpress. Is there an easy way to keep my entries and comments? I remember reading about a conversion path when I first heard about wordpress a while back.. Stephan Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 25 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-24762) * If you would be willing to send me a dump of your database I’ll write an upgrade script. * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-24773) * Thanks for sending me the file, I’ll look at this. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-24774) * Muchas gracias 🙂 Stephan * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-24814) * One more thing… Is it possible to start blogging right away and add those other posts via a convert script later, or will that mess with database efficiency or other things I couldn’t dream of? Stephan * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-24815) * Sure, there’s no problem with that. * [jarrod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarrod/) * (@jarrod) * [22 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25098) * An upgrade script would be awesome for all of us stuck with a never-to-be-updated copy of Textpattern. Thanks Allusion, please let us all know when it’s ready 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25172) * Any news or progess yet, allusion? This is in no way intended to sound impatient, textpattern users are used to wait for extremely long periods of time 😉 * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25178) * > “textpattern users are used to wait for extremely long periods of time” * Ouch! 🙂 I worked on it a bit yesterday, and there is code that will import all entries and comments checked into the CVS in `wp-admin/import-textpattern. php`. Back everything up before you try, of course, but I would love to have someone try out this code and give me some feedback. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25204) * Hi allusion, I gave it a try and it fails on step 1 with the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: sanitize_title() in /home/********/public_html/********/ wp-admin/textpattern.php on line 102 (textpattern.php being what I named the file) Hope this helps! * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25205) * You need to have the CVS version of some other files too. I’ll try to package a beta or alpha release soon so this is easier for you. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25206) * In the meantime, if you can let us know which other CVS files are needed, I’ll give it a try again for you. * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25207) * Allusion: A packaged version would be great 🙂 I have not yet got aroung to tinker with CVS, therefore I’d be able to test as soon as the “package” will be available.. Stephan * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25219) * Make sure you also have the latest function files: [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/b2-include/b2functions.php](http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/b2-include/b2functions.php) [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/b2-include/b2template.functions.php](http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/cafelog/wordpress/b2-include/b2template.functions.php) * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25220) * I got those files (and the upgrade from 0.72 to 0.73 script too), and while it pulled everything into my database, I’m not locked out of WordPress as a zero- level user and no comments are showing up on the website itself, old or new. Great improvements and a million thanks, if I’ve missed a file in the process let me know, I’ll be happy to guinea pig this for you 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/#post-25221) * Just to follow up (I’m the same anonymous as above), when I log into WordPress to check my profile, it gives an SQL error: “Unknown column ‘undefined’ in ‘where clause'” When I go to the Post/Edit section and click on the link for ‘admin’ to view their profile, I get the error: “You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1″ Hope this helps, thanks again for an awesome program. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 25 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Upgrading from textpattern’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [TextPattern](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/textpattern/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 25 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [Stephanie Leary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sillybean/) * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgrading-from-textpattern/page/2/#post-25365) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics