RSS import not working

  • neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    I screwed up and deleted my wordpress database. I am unable to get a backup of this. I’ve had to resort to importing the RSS feed of my blog in order to get the posts, but the RSS feed import option isn’t working. I upload the xml file from my computer, it take a while, then I get the “All done, have fun” message, indicating the import was successful, however when I manage posts, none of the imported posts are there.

    I’ve searched the forums and cannot find an answer. I tried the solution suggested here – http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119093 – but that didn’t help.

    I’m importing two feeds, one from my old blogger account (which I seem to be unable to import directly) and the feed generated by wordpress since I changed over on the 13th of July.

    The two xml files were generated from the feeds by Google Reader using this method: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html (I love google)

    The first feed is an atom feed, the second one generated by feedburner from the default WordPress feed. I can post links to or samples of the feeds to provide examples if that helps.

    I’m using wordpress v2.2.1.

    This is driving me to dispair, and my blog is currently offline (I get quite a few visitors, so I’d like to be back up asap), so any help you can offer would be welcomed like a glass of water in the Sahara.

    Thank you!!

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  • Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I hate to bump my post after only two hours, but this is really distressing me. I’ve tried everything I can think of, but I just can’t get it to work! I really really don’t want to lose six months of work, posting every single day.

    Can anyone take a little time to have a look at this for me please?

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Help please?!

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Bump

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Come on folks! Can’t someone PLEASE help me out here?! I’m on the verge of losing six months of work, this post has been here for two days, and not a single response?! I don’t even know where else online I could post to ask for help! This is a wordpress problem, and these are the wordpress support forums.

    I’m DESPERATE for help!

    PLEASE!

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    bump

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’m still working on this myself while I wait for a reply here. I’ve managed to get my old blogger posts to import, by fixing the problem described in another thread here (changing www2.blogger.com to http://www.blogger.com in the import scripts). So fortunately I now only have two months of posts that I need to recover, but that’s still more than I can bare to do by hand.

    I’ve been scouring the net for an answer to this problem and the best I can figure is that the rss file output by google reader isn’t in a format that wordpress is happy with. The confusing thing is that wordpress SAYS it’s happy with the file and tells me it’s completed the import, even though no posts show up.

    I tried looking for a way to convert the google reader output rss file into some other form of rss file, but I couldn’t find anything. Does anyone know of any such converters?

    Any other ideas why the import isn’t working?!

    Please offer any help you can!

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, I tried installing wordpress on another web host,to see if the problem I’m experiencing was something to do with the host. I tried the RSS import and the same thing happened. I got notification of a successful import, but no posts show up.

    This is getting rediculous. It’s been 4 days since i posted this thread but I’ve yet to have a single reply. Isn’t there ANYONE willing to offer support for wordpress?

    I’m not going to give up. I’ll keep bumping this till I get an answer.

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Ya know, I see a post with 8 responses, I tend to assume that they aren’t all the same person. You can get upset and vow to bump forever, but …

    Moving along:

    The first feed is an atom feed,

    Atom != RSS. Can you get that feed as RSS instead? That’s what WP can import.

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you for the reply!

    I really hated bumping so much, and I hate it when others do, but I made my first post five days ago, and this is the first response. If I hadn’t bumped, it would have been on the 10th page by now, and lost forever. I’ve tried to be constructive with my bumps, but I apologise for doing it as much as I did.

    My old blogger page generated an atom feed. I’ve managed to figure out the problem with importing the old blogger entries, so that won’t be a problem now, fortunately.

    The blog, since I moved it to wordpress, was an RSS feed. I retrieved the backup of the feed archive by exporting them from Google Reader. I don’t know if this is in atom format or rss. I did one export which only retrieved the rss archive from reader, after I’d stopped using atom. Could that still be a problem?

    Here’s the first bit of one of the xml files I’m trying to import:

    <?xml version="1.0"?>
<feed xmlns:gr="http://www.google.com/schemas/reader/atom/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><!--
Content-type: Preventing XSRF in IE.

--><generator uri="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</generator><id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/feed/http://neil.creek.name/blog/feed/</id><title>Neil&amp;#39;s Place</title><link rel="self" href="http://www.google.com/reader/atom/feed/http://neil.creek.name/blog/feed/?r=n&amp;n=500"/><link rel="alternate" href="http://neil.creek.name/blog" type="text/html"/><updated>2007-09-07T02:24:06Z</updated><entry gr:is-read-state-locked="true" gr:crawl-timestamp-msec="1189131846356"><id gr:original-id="http://neil.creek.name/blog/?p=3">tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d6922edc079e8ae8</id><category term="user/08677544345365840733/state/com.google/read" scheme="http://www.google.com/reader/" label="read"/><category term="Uncategorized"/><title type="html">Technical problems</title><Publish>2007-09-07T01:50:05Z</Publish><updated>2007-09-07T01:50:05Z</updated><link rel="alternate" href="http://neil.creek.name/blog/2007/09/06/technical-problems/" type="text/html"/><summary xml:base="http://neil.creek.name/blog" type="html">Regretably I have encountered some sever technical problems, and my blog is currently unavbailable. It will take some time to restore the blog, and unfortunately comments at least have been lost. Please bear with me while I attempt to restore the blog.
I will still be taking daily photographs for Project 365, but I will have [...]</summary><content xml:base="http://neil.creek.name/blog" type="html"><p>Regretably I have encountered some sever technical problems, and my blog is currently unavbailable. It will take some time to restore the blog, and unfortunately comments at least have been lost. Please bear with me while I attempt to restore the blog.</p>
<p>I will still be taking daily photographs for Project 365, but I will have to catch up once the blog is back in working condition.</p>

    I note that both “atom” and “mrss” are mentioned in the header. Is this a problem? If so, does anyone know how to choose the format that Google Reader can export to? This is the method I usedto get the feed history: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html

    Thank again so much for your reply. With a little direction I’m sure I can figure this out.

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve done some more research. It turns out that the method I used to get the feed archive from google reader DOES output an atom file ( http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html ) not an RSS one.

    I’ve just spent a couple of hours of frustration trying to find a way to convert the atom file into an rss file. Just about every page I could find online would only convert live atom feeds, rather than a locally stored xml file. There is no atom feed, just the archive that I have. A little more searching turned up an xslt file that supposedly will transform an atom xml file into an rss xml file ( http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/atom03rss1.xsl ). After much further searching I found an app (with a 10 day free trial) that will to xml transformations with an xslt file ( http://www.xmlblueprint.com ).

    Finally having success at transforming the atom xml viat the xslt, I try importing the file…

    Nothing.

    Same problem as before. So I’m now at a loss what to do again. Anyone got any ideas?

    Poco

    (@poco)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t know much about the RSS importer, but if you put your atom file anywhere on your server then it becomes an atom feed that you can reference anywhere. If there is an online tool that takes an atom URL and generates an RSS feed, you could post the atom file to your server and use that as the atom url, no?

    I’m not saying that will help much, but maybe they are better a converting the file than the tool you used. Perhaps you could also post a link to that file once you upload it so someone could suggest what might be wrong with it.

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for the reply Poco. And good suggestion!

    Unfortunately I had tried it, but the converter gave me an error.

    Here’s the file: http://www.orionvisuals.com/temp/july-13-sep07.xml

    Here’s where I tried to convert it: http://www.2rss.com/software.php?page=atom2rss

    This is the error I got:
    XML Parsing Error: no element found
    Location: http://www.2rss.com/atom2rss.php?atom=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orionvisuals.com%2Ftemp%2Fjuly-13-sep07.xml
    Line Number 1, Column 1:
    ^

    Any suggestions?

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’m still hoping for some help on this one. Any ideas?

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Bump

    Thread Starter neilcreek

    (@neilcreek)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Please?

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