Yeah, don’t use the RSS import for the WXR file that you got from WordPress.com.
Use this plugin instead (read the instructions carefully)
http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/
I got the plugin installed, but it still freezes and gives me a white blank page on this URL:
http://jbotter.com/wp-admin/admin.php?import=wordpress&step=1
I didn’t get a WXR file from WordPress.com — it was XML. Or is it really a WXR file under the XML format?
I’m still needing help with this issue, if anyone has any ideas. I’ll PayPay one person $10 if you can help me get this problem resolved.
Im having the same issue with version 2.2 Also after exporting from wordpress.com i get a xml file, then when trying to import it, im seeing the same blank white screen in firefox. In IE im getting a connection error.
Can someone please help?
Thank you
I’m having a similar issue; my blog seems to work fine until I import my WordPress.com XML file. After that, everything just screws up and I can’t do anything in my blog!
For example, If I want to edit pages and click the ‘Manage’ link, I get a blank page with a ’35’ on it. The same goes for almost any link. Shouldn’t WordPress 2.2 have dealt with these errors by now?
You guys all still having troubles with this? I have testing the XML wp.com export file into wp 2.1.3 and wp 2.2 ad it worked fine for me. Can you give a few more details or a URL to look at?
Trent
There’s lots of things that can go wrong (I can’t speak for 2.2 though).
1. The importer can die if you happen to have a huge number of comments on one post. It was not a php memory limit issue but people could have them as well)
2. It’s not really XML it only looks like it.. nor does the importer parse it as XML.
Feed it to a parser and enjoy the error messages. – Thats a good technique to debug a bad file though. Give the wxr file a .xml extension and open it in Firefox and see where it dies. Then you have to fix those and maybe (just maybe) the import will work.
3, If your blog is ancient enough or moved through enough versions of MySql, you may have a real & (un-escaped html entities – simple ascii) in the text or comments. Possibly others. Or XML fragements that conflict with the importers view of things.
Don’t get me wrong the export-> import often works. I’ve used it. Sometimes it didn’t (for me, for the above reasons). I might have those failed .wxr around somewhere. Contact me if you really want me to look for them and email them to you.
As to why nievedolores gets a sick admin system after a bad import, I don’t know. But I’ve seen his problem – it exists (2.1.x) . My best guess at the time was bad import into the DB confused WP something awful after that. It’s not hard to believe that a borked row in the DB can screw up WP admin or non admin.
My solution was very specific to my content, web host, technical level and just not not a general “try this” hint.
