Glad you’re finding it helpful, but this post is a bit old now – I’m not sure what may have changed in WordPress since it was written. Hopefully it’s all still valid.

With regard to the datasouce, you just need to set one up via the CF Administrator to point to the WordPress database, so that CF can access the data.

I’m afraid there really is no easy way of doing this, but I’ve managed it with a bit of messing about.

Firstly you’ll need to get all the content into the WordPress database. You could do this by manually adding records, or you could export the content to XML compatible with WP’s import functionality.

Personally, I put the records in manually, using CF. My old CF site had IDs included in the link (/blog/the-name-of-the-post-123.cfm) so using CF I could loop through the records and insert them as posts in WordPress using the same ID.
This makes things a little easier as you could feasibly get the ID of the post from the original .cfm URL and redirect straight to the WP generic link (/blog/?p=123).

If you want to redirect to the full URL generated in WP, presumably for SEO, you’ll need to manually set up each redirect.
I have a redirects table in my database, with an old URL and a new URL. Then in my error handler in Application.cfc, I run a query on any 404 errors to see if the URL exists in the table. If it does, I can do a 301 redirect straight to the new URL.

Hope that’s some help to you… Best of luck!

Regarding the “slugs”, I use a query to get the parent and grandparent’s (if applicable) post name then build a URL from the install folder e.g. /blog/ – so /blog/[grandparent post name]/[parent post name]/[post name]. Although most posts are usually in the format /blog/how-to-write-cool-apps the above allows me to get at least 2 sub categories

I will try and get round to posting on sourceForge soon at least to show how far I’ve got.

I’ve always thought there was a need for a comprehensive CF library of components to integrate with WordPress, as I find more and more of my CF sites have a WordPress blog alongside them.

I’d be very interested to take a look at what you’ve come up with!

While we’re on the subject, have you found any way to get the permalink out of the WordPress database? It seems to generate the link on the fly based on the settings, but doesn’t actually store the URL anywhere, which means if we want to link to a post from CF, we either have to use the ID (as I’m doing) or parse a version of the permalink from the settings table.

Anyway, thanks for commenting and good luck with ColdPress!

Martin

@Sam
I think we’re achieving different things there – I have php and ColdFusion on the same box… my issue is that I want to include .cfm templates in a WordPress theme, so that I can have a uniform header and footer that includes session information (such as number of items in a CF based basket).