Actually, the automated tool has already been created.

It is called CMS2CMS (http://www.cms2cms.com). It can migrate content, categories, images, users, comments, tags and internal links from Drupal to WordPress. http://www.cms2cms.com/supported…

Using CMS2CMS requires no technical skills or software installations and the migration is performed within minutes to a couple of hours (depending on the site size).

This plugin helps you import all of your posts, pages, comments, tags, categories and other necessary settings from the export file. It can also import custom filed, post-Meta, customs taxonomies terms, and author profiles.

It is a multi-language plugin and can support more than 17 different languages. It has certain filters to import only the selected content. If you are importing a very large amount of data, it is a safe option to consult your hosting service providers.

Installation ...

Did not find an easy solution to this so I created a gem: https://github.com/lfender6445/t…

gem install theme_bandit

The gem allows you to build a tiny rack application out of an existing live site. If nothing else, this will do a large portion of the setup work when converting an existing template to a ruby project (handling of assets like js, css, and conversion for template engines)

I use cloud9 (ubuntu) for testing/staging, and move data across to live site when I’m happy. Or vice-versa if I want to clone a copy of the site (generally just database and wp-content).