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snarpLast week, I decided to mirror copies of my LiveJournal posts over onto my website for paranoia reasons. I think I'm pretty much done now. I don't know if I'm going to bother making the mirror keep up with the LiveJournal perfectly unless I can find a way to do it automatically.
Anyway. Notes on exporting stuff from LiveJournal to WordPress:
* Make sure the WordPress content directories have their permissions set up all nice before you start. It might not work right anyway, though.
* Set the correct time zone in WordPress before you start. WordPress and LiveJournal don't communicate well about this - all your imported posts will end up with the wrong time stamp if you're not in the time zone WordPress thinks you are.
* * And apparently Daylight Savings doesn't sync up right no matter what you do. What the hell.
* It's the XML export option, not the default CSV one.
* LiveJournal-specific code - lj-cuts and user- and community-names - won't go through right. It just gets erased. (Not the stuff under lj-cut tags, just the tags themselves.) For user- and community-names, I just uploaded the little graphics to my server and manually put in fake tags. This will be over-labor-intensive for people who write more than I do.
There's no WordPress equivalent to an LJ-cut; I eventually ended up manually setting up fake cuts that led back to the LiveJournal. This won't work for people who write more than I do, or are planning to erase the LiveJournal. (I also made invisible posts containing all the cut text, to keep all my data nice and safe.)
* Apropos of the invisible double-posts - you can *have* two posts for exactly the same time, but only one will show up at a time on a list-page that should show both. My solution was to set the double-posts' times one second back.
* Tags ("categories") won't transfer over, either.
* The "Uncategorized" category doesn't disappear automatically once you've, you know, categorized a post - you have to actually remove it. And WordPress has no mass-edit options.
* In WordPress, "publish" means "make visible to all" - if you've set a post to "private," hitting "publish" will undo it. Hit "save" instead.
* When viewing the blog while logged in as an administrator, there's nothing to differentiate private posts from public ones. There doesn't seem to be a way to view only the private posts, either. This is annoying.
* If you're changing the permalink style and WordPress says, "You should update your .htaccess now" at the very top of the page, scroll down to the very bottom. There's a box down there that explains what it wants.
* It's kind of messed-up how the LiveJournal spellchecker doesn't recognize "LiveJournal," "LJ," "blog," "permalink," and "href."
Anyway. Notes on exporting stuff from LiveJournal to WordPress:
* Make sure the WordPress content directories have their permissions set up all nice before you start. It might not work right anyway, though.
* Set the correct time zone in WordPress before you start. WordPress and LiveJournal don't communicate well about this - all your imported posts will end up with the wrong time stamp if you're not in the time zone WordPress thinks you are.
* * And apparently Daylight Savings doesn't sync up right no matter what you do. What the hell.
* It's the XML export option, not the default CSV one.
* LiveJournal-specific code - lj-cuts and user- and community-names - won't go through right. It just gets erased. (Not the stuff under lj-cut tags, just the tags themselves.) For user- and community-names, I just uploaded the little graphics to my server and manually put in fake tags. This will be over-labor-intensive for people who write more than I do.
There's no WordPress equivalent to an LJ-cut; I eventually ended up manually setting up fake cuts that led back to the LiveJournal. This won't work for people who write more than I do, or are planning to erase the LiveJournal. (I also made invisible posts containing all the cut text, to keep all my data nice and safe.)
* Apropos of the invisible double-posts - you can *have* two posts for exactly the same time, but only one will show up at a time on a list-page that should show both. My solution was to set the double-posts' times one second back.
* Tags ("categories") won't transfer over, either.
* The "Uncategorized" category doesn't disappear automatically once you've, you know, categorized a post - you have to actually remove it. And WordPress has no mass-edit options.
* In WordPress, "publish" means "make visible to all" - if you've set a post to "private," hitting "publish" will undo it. Hit "save" instead.
* When viewing the blog while logged in as an administrator, there's nothing to differentiate private posts from public ones. There doesn't seem to be a way to view only the private posts, either. This is annoying.
* If you're changing the permalink style and WordPress says, "You should update your .htaccess now" at the very top of the page, scroll down to the very bottom. There's a box down there that explains what it wants.
* It's kind of messed-up how the LiveJournal spellchecker doesn't recognize "LiveJournal," "LJ," "blog," "permalink," and "href."
