I’ve had a few questions about how I converted this site to WordPress. For anyone who’s interested, my database conversion script can be seen here. I based it on scripts by D’arcy Norman and others.
The only problem with the conversion was that user’s roles & capabilities were lost. That can be fixed by going into user management and manually assigning a role like subscriber or author to all users.
Another common issue is changing permalinks. It’s very easy to keep the same permalinks in WordPress by changing the link structure to /node/%post_id%.
I wanted to display only a short excerpt of each article on the main page rather than the entire article, which most WordPress themes do. That’s also easy to fix by editing the theme’s index.php, looking for the_content() and changing it to the_excerpt().