Migrating articles from Wordpress to OJS 3.4

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Hello everyone, I just installed OJS 3.4 to publish my academic medical journal. Previous issues of my journal were published as PDFs on Wordpress. Can I migrate my back issue PDFs to OJS and make them OJS back issues?

Journal’s website: www.annalqudsmed.com
Old website: www.ojs.annalqudsmed.com

Thank you.

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Hi @hi2019,

There is no automatic way of exporting content from Wordpress to OJS. The methods of importing for OJS are outlined here:
https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs/en/tools#importexport

Some folks here on the forum have discussed integrations between WordPress and, OJS, so you might find some clues buried in other threads, like these: Wordpress XML import or by searching on the forum.

I wasn’t able to access your site through the link provided - it just gave a blank page, so I couldn’t see how much content you have. If you only have a little bit of content, you may want to consider, the quick submit method. However, if you have a larger amount of content, you may want to consider the XML import - there is, however, a learning curve associated with that.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Hi Roger,

Thanks for your feedback. Will search for some clues.

This link should work: http://annalqudsmed.com. The other link [www.ojs.annalqudsmed.com] is working fine and should lead to the wordpress site.

Thanks.
Haitham.

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Hi @hi2019,

Thanks - the https://annalqudsmed.com/ link doesn’t work for me (just gives blank page - tried in several different browsers. I was able to access your Wordpress site, though, and can see the content that your journal has. I your case, given that you have a modest amount of content, you may want to try the QuickSubmit. It may take a bit of time, but will be mroe straightforward than the XML method.

-Roger
PKP Team

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Hi Roger,

Thanks for the feedback.

For some reason http:// works , but https:// gives a blank page. I am trying to sort this as it seems an issue with SSL certificate. Please mak sure yo use http://www.annalqudsmed.com and not https:// or omit www.

Thanks for the suggestion about migrating PDFs. I tried to install the Quicksubmit Plugin from the Plugin gallery but for some reason OJS is failing to copy the Plugin to the destination folder. I am also working on this.

Regards,
Haitham.