nex2nun

When a category is created it is given an ID which is visible from the Manage -> Categories menu. You can create categories there or create them from a post.

Hope that helps.
-NEX

Could be a relatively easy fix.

Check out the sidebar.php file from the Presentation -> Theme Editor menu option.

From there select sidebar.php. Within this you should be able to use the “wp_get_links” template tag.

Here’s an example


<?php wp_get_links('1'); ?>


This will get the links for the category “1”.

Here’s more on this tag
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_get_links#Example_2

Hope this helps
-NEX

You could add some CSS properties to the CSS file within the theme directory that you are using. You can even change the CSS through WordPress by going to the Presentation -> Theme Editor menu option.

Here are a couple of options for applying this CSS.

If you want to simply have ALL images use a border you could try this


img {
border: 1px solid #CCCC
}


However, this would be applied to ALL images within your theme.

You could also just apply the same image properties to the class for posts, for example:

within a class


.post img {
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}


or even to an ID


#post img {
border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
}


There are quite a few options for this actually.

Hope this helps.
-NEX

Depends on what calendar plugin you have installed.

The calendar would typically be installed in the sidebar.php file, but really it can go anywhere you wish. Even in a page or a post.

If you are not sure which code needs to go there, try reading the information about the calendar from the Plugins menu. Normally a link would be included to the plugin on the web.

Hope this helps!
-NEX

If it worked before the activation of the plugins, I would deactivate each plugin one at a time to identify which plugin, if any, could have caused the issue.

Best of luck!
-NEX

Okay, I got it to work finally.. well not as I may have wanted but it will do for now.

All I did was use the export tool from LiveJournal.

https://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

And then save that XML file into my /wp-admin/ directory. I then manually updated my import-livejournal.php file.

I then logged into my blog and in my browser typed in my url to the directory of the import-livejournal.php file and selected “lets go!” and it gave me a import done screen.

With this method only the posts you make from your LiveJournal account are imported, no comments or anything of the like.

Also noted that if you have something behind an </lj-cut> all information behind that cut is displayed directly in your WordPress blog.

Another issue I noticed was if you post any of those “meme’s” or what not, they tend to mess with your theme (or layout) and are best if they are deleted.

I only exported one month, so I will continue on and note any issues I experience.

Yes all XML files are in the wp-admin directory.

Well that’s my next step.. but I thought I read that when using the LJ export tool that any comments made are not exported?

So let me clarify this and see if I understand the process that you mentioned.. I should sign to my LJ account and visit the export tool at https://www.livejournal.com/export.bml and begin to export my journal.. this will create an XML file for the comments.. to which I should take that XML file and manually update that information into the /wp-admin/import-livejournal.php file?

Now did you have to toy with the /wp-admin/import-rss.php file?

and thank you very much for your feedback.. just trying to solve this puzzle and will hopefully write a nice tutorial on how to get er done the right way..

Okay.. again a bit deeper..

I didn’t pay attention to the FAQ in LiveJournal..

“All journals on LiveJournal have both an RSS and an Atom feed. For personal journals, the feeds are located at URLs of the following forms:

https://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/data/rss&#8221;

So from that I was able to get the RSS XML file.. so now I have two XML files.. one for the comments and such that I exported with the use of ljArchive and the RSS XML file that I got from LiveJournal.. still.. notta..

Now somethings gotta give..

Well I dug a bit deeper and thought I had it solved but still no go. I have my LiveJournal comments XML file and I have the LiveJournal RSS XML file. I have put the files where they need to go and manually updated everything, but still nothing. What am I doing wrong??

https://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149

I really want this to work, if it does I’m ditching LiveJournal completely. I really like WordPress.. very much so.

Any ideas on what I’m fouling up?

I first attempted using ljArchive to download the whole package.

I am going to try and use the export tool in LiveJournal to see if that offers a different solution.

well actually no.. but I suppose there’s where I get a bit confused.. basically I’m just assuming that the import process works directly with the xml file.. i’m not familiar with xml or rss that well so maybe i’m just not understanding what takes place during the import..

Nice! Love the background image, very nice look. Great job.