diff --git a/tools/wp2pelican.py b/tools/wp2pelican.py
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+#! /usr/bin/env python
+
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
+from codecs import open
+import os
+import argparse
+
+def wp2html(xml):
+    xmlfile = open(xml, encoding='utf-8').read()
+    soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(xmlfile)
+    items = soup.rss.channel.findAll('item')
+
+    for item in items:
+        if item.fetch('wp:status')[0].contents[0] == "publish":
+            title = item.title.contents[0]
+            content = item.fetch('content:encoded')[0].contents[0]
+            filename = item.fetch('wp:post_name')[0].contents[0]
+            yield (title, content, filename)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Transform a wordpress xml export into rst files """)
+
+    parser.add_argument(dest='xml', help='The xml filepath')
+    parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', dest='output', default='output', help='Output path')
+    args = parser.parse_args() 
+
+    for title, content, filename in wp2html(args.xml): 
+        html_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.html')
+        rst_filename = os.path.join(args.output, filename+'.rst')
+
+        with open(html_filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fp:
+            fp.write(content)
+        os.system('pandoc --from=html --to=rst -o %s %s' % (rst_filename,
+            html_filename))