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It's really not that hard to do, but a couple of new Roller macros would make it a lot easier. After an hour or so, I ported Almost Spring to Roller. It's running on Otto's blog. I think I'm going to try a couple more.
I case you're wondering, most Wordpress themes are licensed under GPL. That means we can't include them in Roller (since Roller is Apache licensed), but somebody could offer a separately downloadable theme-pack.
One thing I noticed during this exercise is that Wordpress themes are dangerous. They're written in PHP, so you don't want Joe average user to edit them. As the Wordpress.com FAQ says templates are "untrusted code that we havenât verified" so template editing and importing are banned. Contrast that with Roller, where templates are written in Velocity and are therefore safe for end-user customization.
Dave Johnson in Roller
11:01AM Nov 25, 2005
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Posted by Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis on July 08, 2010 at 03:16 PM EDT #
Hi Alexius,
This blog is my first blog and the very first Roller installation ever, as far as I know. I don't think Wordpress even existed back in 2002 when I started blogging here. So, I never had the need to migrate from Wordpress.
That said, I don't think we have a great Wordpress to Roller migration story. There is a story, but its not an easy one. Come on down to the Roller mailing list if you'd like to discuss further.
- DavePosted by Dave Johnson on July 09, 2010 at 08:54 PM EDT #