New Importers

2006 January 13
by Ryan

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 Responses
  1. 2006 January 13
    Jeff permalink

    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. 2006 January 14
    José Miguel permalink

    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. 2006 January 14
    Ozh permalink

    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. 2006 January 14
    Ozh permalink

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

  5. 2006 January 14
    Shahab permalink

    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. 2006 January 28
    Ryan B permalink

    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. 2006 February 14
    wank permalink

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

  8. 2006 December 7
    albaran permalink

    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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