WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog en Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 macmanx on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1057237 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:38:03 +0000 macmanx 1057237@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, not at this time. We can only use their API.

]]> randyfmcdonald on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1056830 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:47:00 +0000 randyfmcdonald 1056830@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are there _any_ workarounds? Is there truly no way for me to import them as a XML file (or ten, or a hundred and twenty)?

]]> macmanx on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1056312 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:50:35 +0000 macmanx 1056312@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We can't import their export files at this time. We can only use their API for a direct import, which is notoriously flaky lately.

At this point, I recommend that you just keep trying. It will work eventually.

]]> randyfmcdonald on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1056094 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:29:36 +0000 randyfmcdonald 1056094@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I want to switch over to WordPress fully but an inability to copy over the archives makes me reluctant.

]]> randyfmcdonald on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1055980 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:12:35 +0000 randyfmcdonald 1055980@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Unfortunately, it doesn't help. I'm having exceptional difficulties: didn't the old Livejournal importer accept month-by-month XML files?

]]> raincoaster on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1055936 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:12:52 +0000 raincoaster 1055936@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Does this help http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/ If not, flag this for staff by putting the tag "modlook" in the tag box and they can help you.

]]> randyfmcdonald on "I want to export my Livejournal blog to my existing WordPress blog" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/i-want-to-export-my-livejournal-blog-to-my-existing-wordpress-blog#post-1055882 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:46:15 +0000 randyfmcdonald 1055882@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi!

Since 2002 I've maintained a Livejournal at rfmcdpei.livejournal.com, but as that service withers on the vine and becomes more problematic I'd like to export my decade's worth of archived posts from there to my WordPress blog, located at abitmoredetail.wordpress.com.

Is there any way I can do that? Whenever I try to import my blog via Dashboard -> Tools -> Import, I keep encountering failure as the Livejournal API never seems to work for me. I can export the blog as XML files, month by month, and I'm making a backup even as I type via my Semagic client, but how can I import this?

Thanks,
Randy
Blog url: http://historyandfutility.wordpress.com/

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