Orchard CMS BlogML old entries

Question

I want to import old blog posts into Orchard CMS's blog module.

These are not contained in any xml format, if I try to add them manually then my posts display by creation date which ruins the order of original creation date of my blog. I noticed with Windows Live Writer I can set the Publish date but this still does not effect the Creation date.

There is a module called BlogML, but my blogs are not in RSS format. I see the BlogML.xsd is here http://blogml.org/, but is there some software I can use to generate the correct XML which I can then import into Orchard? And will this fix the creation date at all? I think I may be left in creating a custom type say 'imported blog' and add extra fields on which I can sort by.

Answer 1

If you are so worried about the creation date, you could just go into the database manually and change the creation date for each blog entry. Would take a lot less time than anything else.