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Leslie

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Transferring Civicrm data from Drupal to Wordpress
February 24, 2012, 07:51:41 am
We have been running Civicrm for a couple of years on Drupal without really doing much with Drupal.
We are now setting up a website with WordPress and would like to transfer our Civicrm data over to a new Civicrm installation in WordPress.
Can this be done and how? We do not have a dedicated tech guy at our small nonprofit so this needs to be pretty straightforward.
Thanks.

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Re: Transferring Civicrm data from Drupal to Wordpress
February 24, 2012, 08:12:17 am
Hi,

The only problem will be that the links between a user and its contact will be lost (obviously, because all drupal users will be removed and you will get new WP users)

If you migrate civi first and then create WP users with the proper email, it should work, otherwise might be more complex (having to update manually the database to change the user-contact relationship)

I would suggest you to copy your database and try and keep an eye if the user id is updated properly on the contact records

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Leslie

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Re: Transferring Civicrm data from Drupal to Wordpress
February 24, 2012, 09:14:34 am
Thanks Xavier for replying.
Besides the user ID dilemma, I just want to make sure that we install all the new programs correctly. Right now I have Drupal and Civicrm (for Drupal) installed. How would I proceed to eventually delete(uninstall) these files and install WP/Civicrm 4.1 with our databases that we were using under Drupal?

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Re: Transferring Civicrm data from Drupal to Wordpress
March 08, 2012, 09:43:30 am
Henry, I too was confronted with this issue.  For me, the trick was in getting the data export right.   After creating a fresh CiviCRM install under WP, I exported my data from the Drupal/CiviCRM install using PHPMyAdmin.  I had to select "Custom" export method to gain access to all options, then I went with the defaults EXCEPT:

- check "Disable Foreign Key Checks"
- Dump table: "structure and data"
- Add Statements, check: "Add Drop Table / View... "

Then I imported the file into my existing WP/CiviCRM database, which seems to have worked fine.
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