They are not showing on the blog because they are not in your WP database.
Note that if you accidentally exported to a subdirectory, you don’t need to do the process all over — move the *wordpress.php files to your WP root or just change import-blogger.php where it says:
$archivefile = “../$bgy”.”_”.”$bgmm”.”_01_wordpress.php”;
… to instead read:
$archivefile = “../archives/$bgy”.”_”.”$bgmm”.”_01_wordpress.php”;
Except change ‘archives’ to the name of subdirectory you exported/ftp’d the blogger site to.
From the codex
hi thanks for the help!
i’ve done both…i’ve uploaded the PHP file from my server, changed the script. uploaded it back to my server and nothing happenned. i’ve changed the file to its original script and moved the files from /wp-archives/ still, nothing happenned.
im getting desperate!
So the archives are now in your /blog/ directory? or are they still in your /wp-archives directory?
If I’m reading it correctly, you should leave the import-blogger script alone, if you moved the files but not the folder to your /blog directory. Otherwise, move the wp-archives folder with the files INTO the /blog directory, and then change the import-blogger.php file where the tutorial says change archives to read wp-archives.
y’know what i did the import process again, i was gonna try doing your instructions (from codex) again. but i first tried re-doing the import-blogger.php instructions again by visiting my blogger site.
i removed the generated archive files and changed the archive path from blogger to the default /blog/ directory (where my wp files resides). i also deleted the wp-archive i created earlier.
my archives since 2004 are now showing although i received some error messages “WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘dateYMDhour’ in ‘field list’]” after clicking “OK”…hmmm
i think this issue is closed? eventhough i received that error?
I guess. It looks like everything is there now, I clicked on Dec 04 and posts showed up.
Rather than having run the script again, you could have just taken the files out of the one directory and moved them to the wordpress directory.
ok i’ll keep that in mind 😀 thanks!
