Importing from GoDaddy Quick Blogcast

You ever get any help on this? I am trying to help a friend do the same thing.

I can’t seem to get the RSS feed to import as of yet either. Any thoughts?

I am also thinking of switching over from Quickblog cast to WordPress. How do I export into WordPress?

Importing using the Typepad setting seems to work — ALMOST! Posts are not visible from the dashboard after importing them. They exist — if you view a comment, you can see the post it’s associated with — but you can’t manage the posts themselves.

Any hope of help on the horizon?

I figured out the problem. When I imported from my Quickblog all the posts had the status set to “published” in the wp_posts table of the WordPress database after the import. I just ran a simple sql command to update them to the correct word “publish”. As soon as I did that, everything magically worked.

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_status = 'publish' WHERE post_status = 'published'

Just a note on this problem:

When you export your blog entries from godaddy’s service you can do a quick find and replace in your favorite text editor to make importing the entries into WordPress go smoothly.

Here is a breakdown of the steps to getting all of your content imported smoothly:

Step 1: Export your content from Godaddy’s Quick Blogcast – make sure to check the boxes for entries, comments, etc. Download this file to a convenient location.

Step 2: Open the file in a text editor that has a Find and Replace function. Use this to find “STATUS: Published” and replace it with “STATUS: Publish”.

Step 3: Import into WordPress using the Movable Type / Typepad setting.

Step 4: Enjoy your new, superior blogging platform.

Thanks to Anonymous above for figuring out the problem.

hi,

thanks for the tips, i tried it and they all got imported as comments.. i did the search/replace.. any ideas?

thanks