Importing material from Xanga and getting it to post on your site.

afalstein · Member · Jun 15, 2015 at 12:47 am
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Half the reason I signed up for WordPress was so that I could transfer my old Xanga posts onto here, as they’re no longer accessible on Xanga. However, I can’t seem to get it to work. I downloaded the xml files perfectly well, and imported them to my dashboard. But nothing changes. Nothing comes up on my blog, and nothing appears in my archive. I can’t find any files in media or anywhere like that.

I would really like to get my xanga blogs up and running, as I devoted quite a lot of time to them back in the day. How could I do this?

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timethief · Member · Jun 19, 2015 at 8:02 pm
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reference link http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/import-from-xanga/
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 19, 2015 at 9:32 pm
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It can take up to 234 hours for an import to complete. How long ago did you start yours?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 19, 2015 at 9:33 pm
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0_0 Whoops, please ignore that huge typo. I meant 24 hours.

(and I’ll leave it just like that, because it’s hilarious)
afalstein · Member · Jun 20, 2015 at 12:11 am
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Well, I don’t remember precisely–certainly before I posted this thread, which as you can see was on Sunday. I’m relatively certain I tried to start the upload before then, on Friday–Jun 12th.

So it’s been a bit more than 24 hours. 234 hours is still a day or so off, but it’s getting close.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 20, 2015 at 12:20 am
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Is http://afalsteinjdkloosterman.wordpress.com/ the site in question? I don’t see any stalled imports there, so I recommend just trying one more time.
afalstein · Member · Jun 20, 2015 at 3:59 am
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Okay, I did that, I got the e-mail saying the import went successfully… I’m still not seeing anything.

Is it possible there’s something wrong with the xml files themselveS?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 22, 2015 at 7:16 pm
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Hm, I don’t see why it’s failing. Would you please try one more time, only this time use a freshly generated Xanga export?
afalstein · Member · Jun 23, 2015 at 4:46 am
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Did it. Still seems to have no effect.
staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 23, 2015 at 6:15 am
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It can take up to 24 hours still. When did you start this new attempt?
afalstein · Member · Jun 24, 2015 at 1:05 am
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Oh sorry. Forgot that. I’d gotten the e-mail saying the import had gone through, so I just assumed that it had completed.

I imported it at… around 4? yesterday. Still nothing now.
amightywp · Member · Jun 24, 2015 at 5:04 pm
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Hi there,

James is out for a few days on vacation so I’m check in on his tickets. I’m going to be sending you an email directly to the address which we have on file. Could you please check that and respond?

Appreciate it!

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