Have you ever wanted to import your entire LiveJournal blog into your newer self-hosted WordPress site? If you’ve Googled for help, you’ve probably not found any one easy solution. I’m here to help, and here’s how I did it (easier than anyone else’s ideas…)
I’ve had my LiveJournal since July 2002, but for the most part have completely stopped writing in it, with the exception of using the LiveJournal CrossPoster plugin to cross-post from my WP to my LJ. In other words, I’ve had more than 6 years worth of blog-post gold hidden behind a “friends only” setting. While I have to give major kudos to LiveJournal for rocking the blogging world and being the best platform for blogging beginners and loyal users, I’ve grown and matured in my needs as a blogger.
I looked around for my options of transferring 6 years of LJ data into my self-hosted WP, and honestly there weren’t a lot out there - unless I would’ve been willing to use LJ’s “export” feature that only allows exporting one month at a time of data (which I wasn’t).
I instead used the following method, and while it, too, is a bit tedious, it did the job smoothly and [this journal] is now heavy several thousand posts.
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When I recently imported more than 6 years of LiveJournal posts into Krississippi.com (a WordPress blog) I managed to have several thousand entries end up listed in the ‘Uncategorized’ category.
The only problem was, these posts were labeled as “Uncategorized“, but weren’t linked to that category.
Annoying.
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Kudos to the Search Regex WP Plugin for helping me find/replace a few details I wanted to change in my blog (read: my son’s name). Seriously, the thought of doing all that work myself - post by post - was just… daunting. With the plugin I was able to replace his name with the initials ‘The Kidlet’ on all posts (content) , post titles, comments (content), etc.
The plugin page says it’s only compatible up to WP 2.3, however I’m running the latest version of WP and I had no problem installing/configuring/using it.
I’ve read on several blogs recently of other’s doing this to protect their kids (and for other reasons) so I thought I’d pass along the linky love.
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