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• 1. Jeff  |  January 13, 2006 at 11:31 pm

  The LJ importer is a great idea. It’ll be even greated if people will be able to use it to move to wp.com

• 2. José Miguel  |  January 14, 2006 at 1:38 am

  The process to upgrade from WP1.5 to WP2.0 would have been more simple if a WordPress Importer would have been done.

  You only have had to create a new MySQL DB and import your old database to the new.

  I did the process of upgrade crossing my fingers because I didn’t know if all were going to be right.

• 3. Ozh  |  January 14, 2006 at 6:35 am

  Wow, that’s pretty cool.

  However, Dotclear is soon to release a major upgrade - aka 2.0 - so there will be more than probably heavy database structure changes.

  Also, since dotclear targets mostly French blogs, there’s a potentially disturbing problem : WP 2.0 does not work on biggest French ISP servers (free.fr) when upgraded from a working 1.5.
  There seems to be a problem with users role : once logged in, you have sufficient rights to see no page but the dashboard.
  A fresh 2.0 install works, though.

  I can provide an FTP account with those 2 wp install to check by yourself if you want to have a look.

• 4. Ozh  |  January 14, 2006 at 6:40 am

  (PHP is 4.3.10, runs as CGI, and MySQL is 4.1.15, if that is of any help)

• 5. Shahab  |  January 14, 2006 at 2:45 pm

  Hmm.. Any plans for b2e importer ..? One of my friends badly need it .. He imported with an old importer and his comments went missing..

• 6. Importers at The Chrisblo&hellip  |  January 14, 2006 at 4:03 pm

  [...] WordPress has all sorts of new importers. Now you can essentially import your underpant into WordPress, and they are working on a bra import tool. Okay, it’s not that wild, but they certainly have import tools to blog interfaces I’ve never heard about (although I tried and examined most available blog scripts) - anyone heard anything about Dotclear? Seems to be some disgusting French affair. [...]

• 7. Ryan B  |  January 28, 2006 at 12:10 am

  Ryan -
  will the LJ importer be able to grab the “friends only” and whatnot posts? I know before I came here, a far ammount of entries were that friend’s only view. Be cool if these were also grabbed but queried (sp) for final import, exclude, or password protect them. Just a thought.

• 8. wank  |  February 14, 2006 at 5:47 pm

  I thought there was a livejournal importer in 1.5? At least, I remember using it. Or perhaps I am going mad.

• 9. albaran  |  December 7, 2006 at 10:14 am

  I am coming from DotClear to WordPress. A new importer from DC to WP is available which uses the flatexport file from DC1 or DC2. A recovery feature allows the import of big blogs.

  View the tutorial(en) to import a Dotclear blog into a WordPress 2 one.

  Feel free to put this importer in WordPress.

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