solarbird | A less terrible dreamwidth to wordpress importer

Okay. Since a few(!) people told me they wanted it, I made my Dreamwidth XML to WordPress importer marginally less terrible and it’s now on my github.

YOU WANT TO READ THE README. YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT TO READ THE README.

Nothing about this is plug-and-play. It assumes linux, it assumes you have or can install perl, it assumes you have full access to your WordPress install and if your Dreamwidth journal is of size you’re gonna need to make small and clearly defined changes to WordPress core code.

Yeah. It is that kind of party and I did stick my tits in the mashed potatoes. BUT IT WORKS.

It even has some features, like preserving your tags (better yet, it makes them into WordPress tags) and pulling down comments and keeping them correctly hierarchical, as far as WordPress will let you do that. Bask in the comment glory! It also preserves Current Music, even if it throws out Current Mood. (Sorry. Wasn’t in it. The mood, I mean. xD ) It’ll categorise your imports as category “imported post” if you want it to for easier searching, and if an imported post has no tags at all, it’ll tag it no-tag.

It’s just, you know, radically undertested lol.

Also I’m absolutely not saying it won’t work on a Windows Server install of WordPress ’cause it just might. But don’t ask me for help, I won’t have it.

Anyway, there y’go. Run, little importer! Be free!

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