Easy RSS Migration?

  • legomancer

    (@legomancer)


    21 years, 1 month ago

    I just switched to WP from a small (though still very satisfactory) blog program called “Personal Weblog” (found here: http://www.kyne.com.au/~mark/software/weblog.php)

    Obviously there’s no easy tool for migrating my 400-odd posts from the old to the new, and the best I can do, I think, is a transfer via the RSS feed. Problem is, that throws 400 old posts into today’s entries, none of which have any topic categories. There’s a plugin that might help with categorizing multiple posts at once, but is there one for quick-and easy re-timestamping? I don’t look forward to having to fix 400 posts by hand.

    Any advice?

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Don’t know of such a plugin/hack.

    Do you have the ability to tweak the code for your weblog software so it outputs closer to the RSS2 format? All you’d need add to each <item> element in your rss is a <category></category> element, and a <pubDate></pubDate> that provides the date in the format:

    Tue, 22 Feb 2005 02:40:20 +0000

    Thread Starter legomancer

    (@legomancer)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you sir! That was the hint we needed to get the RSS feed updating. The import went without a hitch!

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