Super Cool Neato Import
I just imported 399 Live Journal entries to be WordPress Posts.
What is even cooler is that I exercised some programming skills and implemented the backup button in lj-net. I checked it out from CVS on Sunday and played a little. I laughed when I discovered that the Backup option was in the menu, but there were no events for it. Then I remembered it was CVS, so people download actual releases probably did not click the button and wait for something to happen. Hopefully the button didn’t exist in the relese.
I wired up some lame test stuff on Sunday, but this evening I actually implemented the LiveJournal export xml format. This was great because WordPress already has a Live Journal import php script. I simply copied the xml backup to my WordPress host and set a define in the import script, et voila! A few years of very retarted LiveJournal posts.
I must say, beware! I followed very little (none) etiquette on the LiveJournal Posts.
July 1st, 2005 at 10:28 am
LiveJournal has etiquette?
July 4th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
no, LJ doesn’t have etiquette, but good blogs typically do. And I’d prefer my blog to be good, not bad.
July 6th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
seriously dude, can you tell me how you did that? i would love to export all my LJ entries to my wordpress… plz!?
i mean i know you semi-somewhat explained how you did it above.. but gimme step by step aol n00b instructions how to do it…
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July 6th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Knowing a little sql let me figure out some post ids and ultimately create a livejournal category (4).
So I reassigned all the imported entries to the lj category directly with this SQL command:
update wp_post2cat set category_id=4 where post_id between 53 and 452;