douglerner

Oops-a-doodle. I got mixed up at which site I was at. Sorry about that.

Well, I did run it 5 times and it did seems to finish correctly then with the “have fun” link.

And perusing through the blog (douglerner.net) there doesn’t seem to be replicated content.

I think what was happening was that it was repeatedly getting timed out. But the importer is aware of duplicated (thus all those “already exists” messages) and avoids replicates.

Each time it got more and more because it was able to quickly skip over what it already imported.

So eventually it finished.

The only immediate issue I see is that YouTube embeds all look like:

[youtube https://youtube.com/w/?v=qBWVWjdNWC0%5D

I suppose there is some setting to expand it somewhere. I’ll hunt around.

Thanks for your assistance, esmi.

doug

It seems that every time I run it it races through the messages like:

Media “Today’s quake activity – 5 of them between 4.4 and 5.9” already exists.

and then goes on and gets some more. So I do think it is just timing out with wordpress.com.

I’ll keep running it over and over again until it thinks it’s finished and see what happens.

Thanks,

doug

In this case the exporter is the exporter here at wordpress.com. I don’t really have control over what it is exporting.

It might be timing out. It seems to be. The import file is just 4.8 MB in size though.

I’m re-running it and this time it seems to be getting farther. Maybe there is a timeout with wordpress.com and I just have to keep on re-running it over and over again until it gets everything?

doug

It’s just all… weird.

I deleted that WordPress instance and recreated a new one and ran the importer again. I still got those messages, but it stopped at a different point.

There are no posts, but now there are 272 media files. Here at wordpress.com there are 1,155 media files.

I think the importer just doesn’t work.

Meanwhile here at wordpress.com I ran the importer back in March to import from Posterous. But looking today I realize that lots of old messages with YouTube links in them simply did not import the YouTube links at all.

So what I’m left with is that the only 100% working site is my Posterous blog. But I would like to get away from them because the handwriting is on the wall there.

But where to go?

Here there are problems with email notifications and the Invite system is buggy.

With a self-hosted WordPress blog the content doesn’t import.

And even if it did, the content on my blog here didn’t 100% import from Posterous.

Hmmm…

doug

Maybe it’s best to just leave it to wordpress.com?

But a disturbing thing happened there. My sister accepted her invitation but didn’t receive notices. I checked and it was there, but in her Gmail spam folder.

That never happened with Posterous.

doug

I’m still wondering – is it best to stick with wordpress.com or run this on my own.

Is there a comparison chart showing what I would be missing if I don’t keep my blog at wordpress.com and what I would be gaining if I ran it on my own?

Search optimization?

Followers from “freshly pressed?”

Better speed?

Thanks!

doug

I’m going to give this a try. And I’ll check out the JetPack plugin.

One question though. As i mentioned, I have existing content from 2007 to 2010. That content is also on my wordpress.com site. Will the import be clever enough to recognize that old content is duplicated? Or should I somehow clear out the existing database?

I guess the only thing I’ll be missing from wordpress.com is the fact that people have actually been finding my blog there and I have a dozen or so followers now.

Thanks!

doug

Thanks. There is a lot of useful information in there. It seems, from the instructions, that the attachments are dealt with in some post processing that downloads them from the original site. I suppose that’s why the import file is so short.

I will give that a go.

Thanks!

doug

Thanks for your note, Samboli.

I checked and on the individual posts “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this post” are set. That overrides the global setting I guess?

I’ll check the plugins you mentioned.

Thanks,

doug

Well, what I did, and I don’t know if this is “best practice” or not is this:

(1) I duplicated the default themes folder into it’s own new theme hierarchy and set WordPress to use that theme. I figured if I upgrade I wouldn’t lose the changes that way.

(2) Then I edited header.php and changed the body section around to reference my banner image.

(3) I tweaked the stylesheet to get rid of the extra padding on top.

It looks ok now.

doug

I’ve been trying to figure this out too and try as I might can’t. I also have a .jpg file I’d like to see replace my default banner at https://lerner.net/blog and would appreciate any hints. Thanks!

Doug
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I also have the same problems – but with PhotoBucket embed tags. There is no way of turning off that annoying “feature” that converts the embed tags whenever the post is edited?

doug

I guess nobody has any info on this? Is there no way of turning off that “feature”? Right now, every time I re-edit a post I have to reset that embed tag manually…

Thanks,

doug