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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 😉
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.
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.
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.
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 😉
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.
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.
(PHP is 4.3.10, runs as CGI, and MySQL is 4.1.15, if that is of any help)
Hmm.. Any plans for b2e importer ..? One of my friends badly need it .. He imported with an old importer and his comments went missing..
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.
I thought there was a livejournal importer in 1.5? At least, I remember using it. Or perhaps I am going mad.
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.