Nothing like migrating to a new blogging platform to get you in the mood to write some new posts. Just switched from Wordpress to Octopress.

You can find migration instructions a number of places, but the process was pretty straightforward for me.

• Exported published posts from Wordpress
• Updated xml export to include atom namespace that was missing
• Used exitwp to convert the export into the markdown format. I did run into a wrapping issue.
• Enabled comments on old posts with the following find and replace

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 perl -pi -e 's/layout: post/layout: post\ncomments: true/g' *.markdown

• Saved images to source/images and updated posts with proper links
• Deploy to github!
• Update feedburner RSS feed location

Now I just need to find a spell checker plugin!