Importing from blogger, post ID’s and dotcomments

  • A few questions.

    1. I didn’t start using blogger’s “title” feature until a few months ago. Actually, I don’t think they even had it available. Anyway, if you look in my archive, you’ll notice that they all have postID’s as titles instead of a real title. I would prefer if it’d at least take the first few words of the post and make a title out of that.

    2. I read the dotcomments import section on the support section of WP but I am not sure I understand a) if it’s still applicable and b) if it is, where to insert the code. The description is not very clear (to me).

    3. If I want to do the import over again, how would I reset my site so I can do so? Basically, delete all the posts and users, bring it back to a clean install.

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  • I see the same thing on some of my posts, but fortunately it only affects a few older items. I wouldn’t mind knowing how to resolve this automatically too. Sorry I can’t help, I’m still trying to write a plugin to copy the images from my blogger blog.

    However, I can answer 3. If you delete all the WP tables from your database (but keep the database) that will reset your blog and require you to go through the wp-install.php process again.

    Thread Starter sygyzy

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    Poco – I don’t want to go throught he install process again, I just want to reset the posts. Any ideas?

    I read at one time, the import script would actually take the first few words of the post and turn that into the title. That’s something I’d prefer over having the PostID appear as the title.

    Poco, what is your blogger image problem? Maybe I can help.

    What if you were to backup the wp_options table, reset the DB, do a quick install (click, click, click) and then restore that options table? I’m still new to WP so my advice should be taken with caution ??

    I don’t know about the title thing. Most of my blogger blog had titles, it was just some really old posts that didn’t. I know that blogger effectively used the first few words as the title but I haven’t been using WP long enough to be much help. I wonder if it could be done with a plugin (if title looks like ID replace with first few words of post).

    My problems with the images is that they are all hosted on blogger.com. I have been asking around for information on this but no one seems to know, so I have decided to write a plugin that goes through each post, downloads the images, and updates the links. If you know a better way to do this I am all ears. I would be happy if someone could help me find a plugin that was similar enough to modify (anything that parses through each post of the blog and does something, I can figure out the rest).

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