Make a Book out of a Blog

  • Hi,

    I have been running a blog for a few years to chronicle the adoption of my daughter. Now that the adoption is over, I’d like to have it printed as a book as a keepsake of the remarkable experience.

    What is the best way to export the blog (comments and all) in chronilogical order (starting with oldest) into Microsoft Word format?

    Also, it would be SUPER if whenever there was an html link, the export maybe put the URL in brackets (since you can’t click on a physical book!).

    Any ideas?

    Thanks so much!!! ??

    Mark

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  • The first – no. Microsoft Word has it’s own system of formatting text and such. You *could* save each page you visit as an HTML document, and open it up in Microsoft Word, and then convert it all within Word itself, but there’s no way to export your content into ready-made Word format. What you want to do – you can only do it via time-consuming methods.

    As for the second part…what? That sentence makes no sense at all – I don’t understand what you’re asking there.

    Thread Starter friend_of_grommit

    (@friend_of_grommit)

    What I mean is this…

    Say my blog has a hyperlink, like to google.com…

    If I copy and paste to Word, the hyperlink would be meaningless when I print it out on paper.

    So it would be good if the original sentence:

    This is a sentence with a hyperlink to google.

    turned into this:

    This is a sentence with a hyperlink to google [www.google.com].

    Does that explain it? Thanks!

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Do you know SQL? If so, then you can export the major uiseful text parts of database via phpMyAdmin or something. Then copy/paste it into Word or whatever.

    Dealing with the html links is something you’ll likely have to cope with after you get it into Word.

    You might find something here

    try this:

    https://www.connorboyack.com/blog/making-a-blook-with-wordpress-and-pages

    Thread Starter friend_of_grommit

    (@friend_of_grommit)

    Here’s what I did to accomplish my needs.

    I used Eric Pierce’s WordPress Export v 0.3 plugin to create a Moveable type output.

    Actually, I heavilly changed the files to output it the way I wanted.

    Then, instead of copying and pasting into moveable type, I copy and pasted into Microsoft Word.

    For all the negative things that can be said about Microsoft products, Word has an impressive search and replace feature. Fir instance, I used wildcard searches to find everything between <b> foo </b> brackets and change the font to bold. I did similar things with italics, blockquotes, and even titles to Word styles, so I could make a table of contents! I have to hand it to Word for that.

    I did have to do more manual editing than I would have liked, but in the end I got a 400 page Word document of my blog!

    Thanks for all the suggestions everyone!!! ??

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