Forever. No errors, just stuck on the “Please wait message” with the turning gear graphic
]]>It seems a lot of people are having success with this plugin, but I don’t see anyone having the same problem I am.
When I enter my Posterous host name, email address, and password, the plugin just hangs for me. The button turns to “Please wait…” and the progress spinner graphic comes up, and then nothing happens.
Has anyone else seen/solved this?
]]>Please note that Posterous is shutting down its service on April 30. Please check out this post for details. When the service shuts down, this importer will no longer function, as it relies on the service being up in order to fetch content.
If you wish to keep a copy of your Posterous content, it’s very important that you follow the backup procedure before the shutdown date. The steps are as follows:
This file will contain all of your posts and media along with a file named wordpress_import_1.xml. While you can import your posts using that file, media will not be automatically imported, and there are at present some issues (pending resolution on Posterous’s end) with the export file. You should download it in any case so that you have all of your raw data.
The Posterous importer on WordPress.com handles some of the issues with the file and is able to process most of the media, resulting in a mostly clean import. If you import into WordPress.com, you can then export and then import into your self-hosted blog. It’s not an optimal solution, but it certainly beats losing all of your data.
]]>I’m using the importer to pull from my posterous site. I can see it brought all the blog posts and pictures (though the pictures are reduced in size…but at least they are there!). As for the videos, it shows the thumbnail but then links back to the posterous blog site in order to play the videos. How do I move the actual videos to my own hosted www.remarpro.com site (esp. since Posterous is going offline soon)?
Alternatively, I have run and downloaded the backup file from posterous (2GB) but the import into a wordpress.com test blog had worse results!
]]>Hi all, I am using the importer to import posts from a large (many posts) Posterous blog. The importer seems to be doing great with posts, images, and comments, however it stops randomly at 251 posts. There are at least a few hundred more.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could try to get all of the posts to come into the WordPress install?
Thanks much.
]]>If you are having an issue importing your Posterous blog using this plugin, I have fixed a couple common issues.
See https://github.com/48Web/WordPress-Posterous-Import-Plugin for a fix. This specifically fixed the 403 error I ran into importing my site.
]]>First off, thanks for making this plugin.
Now, there are 2 things that don’t work for me.
1. it doesn’t grab my movies and audio files.
2. It grabs all my pictures but they are all displayed in low resolution.
If I click on them in a post then I can see them in normal res but in the post they are seen in low res. Which is all blurry.
If a picture is named x then in the post I will see x-300×251
The size of the pic is fine and is what I want but I would like the x res to be used and not the x-300×251.
Can these two things be fixed ?
Thanks
]]>I had nearly 600 posts to import but the process keep reporting an XML error after post 150. This turned out to be some dirty code in the body text of post 152 (the plugin pulls 10 posts at a time), which created the XML parsing error. I cleaned up the body text of the post and it imported without any further issues.
]]>This plugin actually works better than the “first import to wordpress.com and use that export file” route. The media all look nicely formatted in the target self-hosted wordpress blog.
The problem is that out of 800+ photos, only 140 were imported. For the rest of the posts the links to the media still go to Posterous.com.
This plugin would be perfect if it just grabbed all the media.
Is there any solution to this?
Thanks!
doug
]]>First of all, thank you for creating this conversion tool. I’ve used it to import two Posterous blogs.
As I anticipated, the photo galleries couldn’t be converted to a WP counterpart; but I can work on that on my own.
What did bother me though is that ALL of my photos and other .jpg’s were reduced in size by 50%. I don’t see anyone else reporting that here. Do you have any idea what might have happened and/or a solution to fix this? It would be too much work to go into every post and re-import each and every photo.
I’ve noticed that if I click on any of my reduced photos, the full-size version appears in a new window… but I just want them full-size in each post, not clickable at all.
…Charles
]]>I installed it on a site and then it messed up the whole site!
]]>PLEASe fix this … i’m going off my head with this crap now!
]]>I fixed the plugin by adding a couple of sleep commands before all posterous.com/api calls.
To whom I can send the patch?
]]>After entering my posterous credentials the plugin starts to work at something and returns with a 403 from the posterous server
]]>The 403 error code is unresolved. The importer does not work.
]]>Not entirely sure where the error lies, but it seems like there is something wrong with the constructor function or how it passes username/password.
I found I consistently got 401 http response from the Posterous API for https://posterous.com/api/getsites, though I knew my authorization was correct.
What I did was to find the call to:
$data = $this->get_page( $url, $this->username, $this->password );
And hard code in the username and password:
$data = $this->get_page( $url, 'myusername', 'mypassword');
(This was line 105 in the 0.9 version).
That got my past the get_sites call, but then it was failing on getting the posts. (403 status on the call to https://posterous.com/api/readposts).
Realizing my posts (on the posterous side) were public, and didn’t require authorization, I just changed line 157 from:
$data = $this->get_page( $url, $this->username, $this->password );
to:
$data = $this->get_page( $url);
I still had to put in the username and password when submitting the form to pass the jquery test, but once I bypassed that I was successfully able to import 50+ posts and over 450 comments from a Posterous site without trouble.
]]>I’ve installed and activated class-wp-importer 0.6.1 and Posterous Importer 0.8. I get this error when trying to run the importer:
Got HTTP code 403 from https://posterous.com/api/getsites
]]>At the beginning I want to state that the plugin works! I have a small problem, however.
During the importing it says for each of the picture “cannot get the picture (url), skipping”. After importing each of the picture is a reference to posterous resources.
When I copy and paste the (url) to the browser, it loads with no problem.
As I don’t want to leave the reference to posterous, and I prefer to move pictures to /uploads, I would like some help.
Again, thanks to authors for the great work on the plugin.
]]>Some problems were expected since this plugin doesn’t claim to support version 3.1.1 of WordPress. I’ve written a more detailed review of the experience.
]]>hi folks could somebody help me out please. I am trying to import a posterous blog and continue to get the following message…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /homepages/27/d342561125/htdocs/thierrysblog/wp-content/plugins/posterous-importer/posterous.php on line 121
I am using a .com domain name but it just refuses to import the blog.
Do I have to go in and make a small modification to the code of the plugin?
if anybody could help out please?
Thanks
]]>In my experince the import plug-in from Posterous to WordPress simply does not work. I can see it visists Posterous syas ‘done’. but nothing has happened.
]]>Have installed this plug-in but it keeps telling me to: “Please check your user name and password, Posterous says it’s incorrect.” even though all the details are correct.
]]>Reposting this as a “not working” post in the hopes it might trigger someone to notice it. I would be happy to apply this patch myself if I could get access. So far I am having to remember to apply my own patch by hand for the blogs that I am migrating from Posterous back to WordPress.
I encountered an error trying to import more than one item from Posterous.
#3 /home/altern8/workspaces/dflydev-website-wp/wp-content/plugins/posterous-importer/posterous.php(215): add_post_meta(15, 'posterous_9ba0b...', Object(SimpleXMLElement), true)
I fixed this by changing the following:
add_post_meta( $post_id, 'posterous_' . $this->bid . '_post_id', $entry->id, true );
to
add_post_meta( $post_id, 'posterous_' . $this->bid . '_post_id', (string)$entry->id, true );
I encountered an error trying to import more than one item from Posterous.
#3 /home/altern8/workspaces/dflydev-website-wp/wp-content/plugins/posterous-importer/posterous.php(215): add_post_meta(15, 'posterous_9ba0b...', Object(SimpleXMLElement), true)
I fixed this by changing the following:
add_post_meta( $post_id, 'posterous_' . $this->bid . '_post_id', $entry->id, true );
to
add_post_meta( $post_id, 'posterous_' . $this->bid . '_post_id', (string)$entry->id, true );
I tried to import my Posterous stuff to my WP 3.0 site https://almud.auner.net, but I get the following error on submitting my Posterous login data:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in /WWWROOT/61611/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/posterous-importer/posterous.php on line 121
EDIT: I read that the importer only works for wordpress.com sites. Is that the reason for the error? Do I need to take the workaround of creating a .com blog to achieve this?
Help, anyone?
Thanks in advance!
Ally
It seem when it import it auto published all blog post without confirmation or anything.
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