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How to migrate IDC comments from Blogger to self-hosted Wordpress
I have just helped migrate this blog: http://barefootbum.blogspot.com to here: http://barefootbum.com but unfortunately the IDC comments were not migrated which is kind of a show stopper.
What are our options here. Can you guys migrate the comments from one place to the other from your backend? Any other solution?
Thanks
What are our options here. Can you guys migrate the comments from one place to the other from your backend? Any other solution?
Thanks
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Inappropriate?I emailed you regarding the importer written by one of our users.
For anyone else interested, one of our users wrote an importer for Blogger to Wordpress. It only works with PHP 5, requires curl and hasn't been tested on old versions of wordpress. As it was not written by our team we will not be able to offer support for the importer. But so far there is a %100 success rate...well to be far there are only 2 people that have used it at this time.
If anyone is interested please email me at support@intensedebate.com.
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PS: You have an old version of the plugin. I suggest you ask Josh for a new version or even better, post this thing on the import panel somewhere for others to find -
I'm hesitant to post it to the import panel since this has only been used by a handful of people and since we didn't write it. Josh has a new version? Maybe I got my versions mixed up.
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Inappropriate?One caveat is that it only works if URL of the blog changes, since it depends on both the old blog and the new blog existing at the same time. That's one reason I lost my ID comments in my own transition. (The others being that I can't see any way to change the domain of a blog in IDC and that there's no importing comments from XML.)
I’m unconcerned
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Can't you access your blogger site from the old domain? something like blah.blogspot.com or whatever?
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Blogger's handling of custom domains seems to be broken for now, so I can't even switch back to the blogspot domain. Besides, the comments are in XML with no way of being imported.
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Inappropriate?I think I may spoil your statistics though. It seems that it failed for me.
I'm going to try and contact the author and see if he can help
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?I think I've found the reason
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/A...
I'll try to see if I can do it myself but I sincerely hope someone can help
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Inappropriate?The error message you are getting is regarding a function called simplexml_load_file(). Apparently this function relies on allow_url_fopen() which is blocked by your host.
What you need to do is use a standard curl to fetch the file and then use simplexml_load_string() to parse it. This will get you around using the function that is blocked by your host.
Basically you need to find the line that says:
$comments = simplexml_load_file($comments_url);
and change it to:
$comments_str = simple_curl($comments_url);
$comments = simplexml_load_string($comments_str);
That should do it. If not, let me know and I'll help you the best I can.
Josh
I’m happy that you're using this!
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Thanks again for all the help Josh. I'll write a post at some point on how to use your plugin in Dreamhost.
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I would like to express my gratitude to Josh for the plugin. Without it, my IntenseDebate comments would have been stuck in limbo. :)
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