The generic RSS importer should work. Won’t get comments though.
Would be a shame to lose the comments.
The “WordPress” importer reads a “WXR” file. This is a WordPress Extended RSS format, which basically means that it’s an RSS file with extra bits in it for comments and such. The format itself is not well documented, but relatively easy to understand and create. It would be possible for somebody to write a converter using the Posterous API.
Of course, it’d probably be equally easy for somebody to write a WordPress importer for Posterous. Importers are fairly easy to write.
If somebody does write one, make sure to submit it to trac. Maybe you can get it included in the core code.
I’m talking to a PHP-savvy friend of mine, maybe he can conjure something up.
I was curious if anyone has any updates on the capability to import comments from posterous to wordpress.
For simplicity’s sake, I am starting a blog on posterous, but envision there may be a time in the future that my blog/company presence may expand to justify updating to the more robust features of wordpress. Just a bit concerned that if and when that day comes I may not be able to import comments that will have accumulated on my posterous blog to date into wordpress to complete such a theoretical upgrade.
Any advice/news on the potential for wordpress to do this at some point would give me peace of mind about starting in posterous now for speed’s sake. Thanks!
My advice at the moment would be to start your blog on http://wordpress.com/ You can always import that to your own self-hosted wordpress site at a later point in time.
Howdy,
I’m working on a Posterous importer for WordPress.com. I should have it up and running very soon. I’ll try to release this for self-hosted blogs as soon as I can.
Hi Brian,
I currently blog on Posterous and am very interested in your importer. Please advise as soon as you have it ready.
Thanks,
Art
http://www.elderlyfraudrecoveryhelp.posterous.com
@counselorart, will do!
All that is really left is to do is make a usable UI for it.
Hi Brian,
Another user eagerly waiting for your plugin..
with the posterous api many things should be possible
http://posterous.com/api
We’ve released the Posterous importer on wordpress.com. Hopefully we can release the importer to wordpress.org soon.
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/posterous-importer/
In theory… You could import from Posterous to WP.com and export THAT to WP self hosted, right?
so very exciting! thanks for this Brian.
i’ll keep an eye on this thread for the release of the .org version