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New Importers

January 13, 2006
by Ryan Boren

We have two new importers in the svn tree: Live Journal and dotclear. These will be in 2.0.1.

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9 Comments
  1. Jeff permalink
    January 13, 2006 11:31 pm

    The LJ importer is a great idea. It’ll be even greated if people will be able to use it to move to wp.com ;)

  2. José Miguel permalink
    January 14, 2006 1:38 am

    The process to upgrade from WP1.5 to WP2.0 would have been more simple if a WordPress Importer would have been done.

    You only have had to create a new MySQL DB and import your old database to the new.

    I did the process of upgrade crossing my fingers because I didn’t know if all were going to be right.

  3. Ozh permalink
    January 14, 2006 6:35 am

    Wow, that’s pretty cool.

    However, Dotclear is soon to release a major upgrade – aka 2.0 – so there will be more than probably heavy database structure changes.

    Also, since dotclear targets mostly French blogs, there’s a potentially disturbing problem : WP 2.0 does not work on biggest French ISP servers (free.fr) when upgraded from a working 1.5.
    There seems to be a problem with users role : once logged in, you have sufficient rights to see no page but the dashboard.
    A fresh 2.0 install works, though.

    I can provide an FTP account with those 2 wp install to check by yourself if you want to have a look.

  4. Ozh permalink
    January 14, 2006 6:40 am

    (PHP is 4.3.10, runs as CGI, and MySQL is 4.1.15, if that is of any help)

  5. Shahab permalink
    January 14, 2006 2:45 pm

    Hmm.. Any plans for b2e importer ..? One of my friends badly need it .. He imported with an old importer and his comments went missing..

  6. Ryan B permalink
    January 28, 2006 12:10 am

    Ryan -
    will the LJ importer be able to grab the “friends only” and whatnot posts? I know before I came here, a far ammount of entries were that friend’s only view. Be cool if these were also grabbed but queried (sp) for final import, exclude, or password protect them. Just a thought.

  7. wank permalink
    February 14, 2006 5:47 pm

    I thought there was a livejournal importer in 1.5? At least, I remember using it. Or perhaps I am going mad.

  8. albaran permalink
    December 7, 2006 10:14 am

    I am coming from DotClear to WordPress. A new importer from DC to WP is available which uses the flatexport file from DC1 or DC2. A recovery feature allows the import of big blogs.

    View the tutorial(en) to import a Dotclear blog into a WordPress 2 one.

    Feel free to put this importer in WordPress.

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