I wrote this script to convert my octopress posts back into wordpress, by using xmlrpc.

octo2wp.py

"""
Requirements:

* A Wordpress Blog
* Python Packages: Markdown, PyYAML, python-wordpress-xmlrpc
  
  >>> pip install Markdown python-wordpress-xmlrpc PyYAML
  
WARNING: 

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. 
If your have any questions, please comment here below.

"""

import os
import yaml
import codecs
from time import strptime

from wordpress_xmlrpc import Client, WordPressPost
from wordpress_xmlrpc.methods.posts import NewPost
import markdown

xmlrpc_endpoint = 'http://yourdomain.com/xmlrpc.php'
username = ''
password = ''

wp = Client(xmlrpc_endpoint, username, password)


for dirname, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('octopress/source/_posts/'):
    for filename in filenames[10:]:
        print filename
        name, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
        if ext != '.markdown':
            continue

        with codecs.open(dirname + filename, 'r', 'utf8') as f:
            content = f.read()

            sep = content.index('---', 1)

            meta = yaml.load(content[4: sep - 1])
            content = markdown.markdown(content[sep + 4:])

            # Post ID
            post_id = None
            if meta.get('guid'):
                try:
                    post_id = meta['guid'].split('?p=', 1)[1]
                except IndexError:
                    pass

            # Datetime handle
            if len(meta['date']) == 16:
                meta['date'] += ':00'

            if meta['date'].count('/'):
                pattern = '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S'
            else:
                pattern = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

            date = strptime(meta['date'], pattern)

            # Permalink
            permalink = name[11:]


            # Category
            tags = meta.get('tags', None)
            categories = meta['categories'] if isinstance(meta['categories'], list) else [meta['categories']]

            terms_names = {'category': meta['categories']}

            post = WordPressPost()
            post.id = post_id
            post.slug = permalink
            post.content = content
            post.title = meta['title']
            post.post_status = 'publish'
            post.date = date
            post.terms_names = terms_names

            wp.call(NewPost(post))