Hello Peter,

Thanks for your interest in EasyBlog. Please find the answers to your inquiries below:

-wordpress permalink is set as example.com/%postname%/ -- will all URLs stay the same?

You can configure it to use the same wordpress format but this is provided that your home menu item links to EasyBlog's front page and you have configured EasyBlog's SEO to use the simple URL format.

-what happens to wordpress pages after converting?

Hm, not too sure about this though as we only import blog posts from Wordpress. Are pages a blog post too?

-wordpress has lists of events. how will that transfer to easyblog?

Not sure what events is this but we only migrate blog posts from Wordpress.

-what about featured images, post images and attached images?

Currently this isn't migrated at this point of time

-are all comments and user avatars transferred?

Comments would be imported but user avatars are not imported currently. However I believe comments in Wordpress uses Gravatar and if that is so, you can configure EasyBlog to pull images from Gravatar.

-wordpress author and time stamp are not displayed. can easyblog do the same?

You can actually configure this in the theme parameters of EasyBlog

Sounds good so far.

The biggest concern is post images. Any suggestions as to what can be done with images? It would be very difficult to migrate years worth of posts and have to manually attach images to each of them after migration.

Wordpress event is a plugin but is formatted as a regular post so if there is a way to simply show a list of posts as events from a category, that would be fine I guess.

Where can I find a list of themes for each easyblog package (community vs professional vs unlimited)?

Hello Peter,

Thanks for getting back to me on this. I did take a peek at the code and it does seem like we have a migration service that also migrates attachments from Wordpress but not too sure why it was commented out though.

As for the themes, I am sorry that I missed your question earlier. Please find the answers below:

Community version: http://www.screencast.com/t/2oKXuddT
Professional version: http://screencast.com/t/jrjCqb46S3MP

Unlimited version comes with everything.

Thanks for providing a list of the difference.

Hope I didn't break anything. When I tried to view the dashboard theme through the demo, I got the following error message.

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /home/admin/demo.stackideas.com/components/com_easyblog/classes/themes.php on line 200

Hello Peter,

Hm, it looks like someone actually modified the theme for EasyBlog. If you try to access it now, it should work fine

I went to http://demo.stackideas.com/easyblog

and then I selected dashboard from the 'select a theme' drop down located at the top right corner.

I'm still getting the same error.

Hello Peter,

Ah, the theme changer isn't supposed to show on the dashboard page. The theme changer should only change themes from the front end and not the dashboard.

Ok my mistake. Since it was listed as a choice, I thought the theme itself was named dashboard.

Not a problem at all

Peter, be carefully with the images. I have migrated on several plattforms. You have to import the images "by hand" in ftp to have them correct displayed. You must not import thumbs, they will be created in easyblog. On the posts I went through all articles found the pictures not correct sized in some cases and could renovate with the editor-menu.

Thanks for sharing Peter

Peter

Thanks for sharing the tip. Did you convert from wordpress directly to easyblog or did you have to convert from wordpress to joomla and then easyblog? What didn't get migrated? If I can get 95% of the conversion done then I'm willing to invest in easyblog. Please share your experience.