Importing links and categories from WordPress.com?

You can export all links under the General Settings tab of the plugin. Then, import links back on the other site, under the Library Settings tab, under the Import / Export section.

Let me know if you have any trouble performing this migration.

Sorry, misread your question and did not see the WordPress.com aspect.

I will have to try this out myself and see how it can be done. I don’t use WordPress.com much.

For now I’ve installed the Links Manager plugin which implements the same functionality that has been announced to be retired from WordPress.com for some time now, and imported links into it as described in that link.

This doesn’t work (categories ignored, results in big list of duplicate links).

I’d still really like to import this into a plugin that’s well maintained and is continously developped. ??

The current version of Link Library works with the same data as the Link Manager. So if you were able to import into that, the data will also be available in Link Library, and will then be able to be converter to the new CPT format down the road.

Thanks for your comments, Yannick!

I found why the import in Links Manager didn’t work as expected. The current Link Manager import only proposes to use one single category and import all links into it. My links library has links with many categories.

The Import blogroll with categories plugin ads a new importer, but has a bug that results in duplicate links so it’s still not perfect, but I’ve contacted the author and will look at the code over the weekend if I don’t hear back from him.

WHile writing this it occurred to me that the Import blogroll with categories code could be merged into Link Library as an import functionality, perhaps an idea for 3.0.