Articles Wordpress import function does not create alias

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michelle84 Reply #1, 14 years, 2 months ago
Hi there,

I'm migrating a wordpress.com website to MODX 2.2.4, using the Articles' 1.6.2. Wordpress import function and the tutorial which can be found here: http://modx.com/learn/modx-college/migrating-from-wordpress/. All works fine, except the imported articles (more than 220) didn't get their aliases (it's blank). I see in core/components/articles/model/articles/import/articlesimportwordpress.class.php on line 171:
```
'alias' => $this->parseContent((string)$wp->post_name),
```
Which seems to be ok, because my Wordpress XML file has post names like:
```
<wp:post_name>this-is-the-title-of-a-post</wp:post_name>
```
I tried to change the code mentioned above to:
```
'alias' => $this->parseContent((string)$item->post_name),
```
but that didn't work. No aliases are being generated.

Don't know if it have anything to do with it, but when I click save on the Wordpress importer dialogue, the "Please wait" loading dialogue stays loading for ever..

Is this a know bug in the Articles Wordpress import function?
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433 Posts

michelle84 Reply #2, 14 years, 1 month ago

Filed as a bug here: http://tracker.modx.com/issues/8447

Temporary fix: I've set up an snippet which scans all articles for an alias, and when there is no alias, it creates one on the fly.

Create a snippet autoAlias with the code below, and run it once.

<?php
/* AutoAlias snippet */
echo 'Setting Aliases';

$resources = $modx->getCollection('modResource', array('class_key'=>'Article'));

if (empty($resources)) {
 
return "No Resources Found";

}
 
foreach ($resources as $resource) {

    if ($resource->get('alias') == '') {
echo 'gedaan.<br />';
								$resource->set('alias',$resource->cleanAlias($resource->get('pagetitle')));
        $resource->save();
         
    }

} 
 
return 'Done!';

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