A while ago I wrote this post that explains how to migrate content from pMachine to Wordpress. All I had to do at the time was to use the script posted here and make minor changes.

Now someone approached me asking for help doing the same A.D. 2008. That is, get content from pMachine to a recent version of Wordpress. I took a closer look at the state of things and a lot has changed with Wordpress. Namely, they are no longer using the “post2cat” table to store post<>category relations; instead, there is a more complicated table structure to store the taxonomy (apparently so that it also scales to tags and other stuff).

So, I had now two choices. a) go and try to figure out the new Wordpress table structure and fix the export script, or b) find another, higher-level approach.