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Posted: 07 January 2010 12:52 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 19 ]  
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Edwin, its a serious weakness for anyone coming to EE with an existing blog in wordpress. I had to manually do it, fortunately there weren’t that many posts. This though doesn’t capture all the comments.

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Posted: 07 January 2010 12:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 20 ]  
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I’ve done it once before, but somehow it doesn’t. With 1400+ posts I don’t like to do it manually.

Wish they (software creators) would think of the users.

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Posted: 07 January 2010 07:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 21 ]  
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Finally I do have the WordPress XML file, but not any of the scripts listed will convert it in a mt file for import.

Tried the Google scripts, but those are not focessed on people with no knowledge in Python.

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Posted: 07 January 2010 09:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 22 ]  
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Has anyone tried going directly from WP-exported XML through the XMLGrab addon into EE? I have used its sibling, CSVGrab, many times for other tasks, but have never tried to import a WP site - and have never scoped out XMLGrab. So I could be all wet.

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Posted: 08 January 2010 03:41 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 23 ]  
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Don’t understand how that is supposed to work.

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Posted: 09 January 2010 05:22 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 24 ]  
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Still trying to import the file. This time by going to mt first. Problem is that there are many things stopping the import with cryptic error messages.

I really hope that one day EE will make a importer for people willing to move from WordPress.

Entityline 129319parser error Opening and ending tag mismatchitem line 128657 and channel Entityline 129320parser error Opening and ending tag mismatchitem line 104811 and rss Entityline 129321parser error Premature end of data in tag channel line 27 Entityline 129321parser error Premature end of data in tag rss line 19 
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Posted: 09 January 2010 06:30 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 25 ]  
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About to give this up.

Entity: line 129171: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: item line 128557 and channel

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Entity: line 129172: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: item line 104775 and rss

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Entity: line 129172: parser error : Premature end of data in tag channel line 27

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Entity: line 129172: parser error : Premature end of data in tag rss line 19

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Posted: 05 May 2010 07:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 26 ]  
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Did you ever find a solution to this EdwinKort? I’ve got a project coming up that requires moving 4000+ posts from Wordpress to EE and I’m a bit worried now!

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Posted: 05 May 2010 07:36 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 27 ]  
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Unfortunately not. I did it the hard way. Installed MovableType on my hosting, imported it there, then used the export function from MT and imported that into EE. HAd to manually remove all comments from the MT.txt file (over 4000 posts..) I do hope EE will make an import for WordPress, as I believe WordPress is one of the most used blog engine.

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Posted: 11 May 2010 05:52 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 28 ]  
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alao it is my proble.. hope to be solved

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