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1. randyfmcdonald
   Member
   Oct 31, 2012, 2:46 AM

   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/

2. raincoaster
   Member
   Oct 31, 2012, 5:12 AM

   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.

3. randyfmcdonald
   Member
   Oct 31, 2012, 8:12 AM

   Unfortunately, it doesn't help. I'm having exceptional difficulties: didn't the old Livejournal importer accept month-by-month XML files?

4. randyfmcdonald
   Member
   Oct 31, 2012, 1:29 PM

   I want to switch over to WordPress fully but an inability to copy over the archives makes me reluctant.

5. macmanx
   Happiness Engineer
   Oct 31, 2012, 5:50 PM

   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.

6. randyfmcdonald
   Member
   Nov 1, 2012, 12:47 AM

   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)?

7. macmanx
   Happiness Engineer
   Nov 1, 2012, 4:38 PM

   No, not at this time. We can only use their API.

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