Livejournal Import
We’ve now turned on the ability for WordPress.com to import files from Livejournal’s export format due to a recent spike in requests. All you have to do is download your XML export and upload it to WordPress.com under the Import menu item, and it’ll import your posts and comments. Some features don’t map exactly, such as lj-cut, but we do our best to make the import as seamless as possible.
As always, if you run into any problems let us know through the feedback feature and we’ll take a look at it.
As a sidenote, the WordPress XML import/export that has been put into the 2.1 core trunk is coming soonish, we just need to finish up the plugin for the current release of WordPress.org so you can actually do something useful with the file, or get an export from your current WP blog.
- June 1, 2006
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very nice…
slightly false advertising, however, as livejournal doesn’t export comments via xml.
got me all excited there for a minute… 🙂
still an awesome addition to your already-awesome service!
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Great thing! Personally, I dont use LiveJournal, but I’m happy that many WP users will now benefit from this thing 🙂
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Nice work, guys. Is there any demand for a Xanga import? Can I start some? 🙂
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Very cool thing!!
You are working fast and good! The export feature is a fundament feature! WordPress.com staff rulez 😀
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I’ll just ditto what Livia said. You guys and gals are doing great work in finding ways to steer more people toward WP — good on you!
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Keep it rolling guys. Big thannks
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Despite the fact that I don’t really use LiveJournal, I think it is a very good development. Again I am amazed at the pace at which WordPress is making progress. It is simply amazing. I am confident that if WP continues its progress at this pace, it will leave Blogger behind in a couple of years. Keep going. Well done.
What I really want at this moment is the ability to use Javascript on my blog and the ability to configure the feed autodiscovery. I am anxiously waiting for these two features to come.
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Oh good! Imma hafta dig up my LJ..which, as a matter of fact, was buried away in the vast echleons of cyberspace eons ago
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Looking forward to WP export feature. Able to export all posts, pages, categories with comments will be great … the one I am looking forward for sure.
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Just imported my old LJ blog. Thanks very very much and keep up the GREAT work!
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nice, another new feature, sadly i didn’t use life journal, anyways, keep up the good work 😉
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hey thankx ppl now some ppl will surely switch over to wordpress
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I don’t have a livejournal, so not much useful for me. Nevertheless, thank you for providing this feature.
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Ditto to what the last person said, don’t use it, still appreciate your work WordPress.
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awesome, you guys just keep it coming!
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that’ e spirit! now let’ livejournal bow down to wordpres!
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Man, if you could do the AOL Journals someday, that would be great.
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Myspace… myspace…. myspace…
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Damn, now I have to download a heap of XML files and sift through them for past wankery 😉
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And what about importing from an existent (1.X) wordpress install?
I would like to move my older posts to my new worpdress blog.
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good deal
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My guess is the spike in LiveJournal requests has to do with the recent problems with LiveJournal and people that use breastfeeding images as their primary icon. Quite the fiasco it seems to be turning out to be.
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Thanks for this. This is what made me decide to move both my blogs on here. 🙂
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Ooooh. Huzzah… a bit too late for me, though. I just copied and pasted all my entries from LJ, which wasn’t that bad. I just wish this had been developed sooner. I still love WordPress, though!
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Thanks for the wonderful feature, I can now import my lj blogs
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good.
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excellent
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