Ticket #2665 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Xanga Archive Importer

Reported by: dinkumator Assigned to: everglow (accepted)
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.9
Component: Administration Version: 2.1
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

I tweaked the livejournal importer around to get it to read in Xanga archives. Seems to work fine for the files I have access to. Only thing is that since there are no titles in the files I have, I used the date and time for the wordpress titles. Xanga has added in titles since the archive files I have so I have no way to test that part of it out. Other than that, it works great for the 3 people I've had try it out so far.

Attachments

xanga.php.txt (7.1 kB) - added by dinkumator on 04/18/06 04:33:51.
xanga importer
xanga.php (7.1 kB) - added by dinkumator on 04/24/06 14:53:04.
non-borked version
xanga.2.php (7.2 kB) - added by everglow on 05/10/07 23:23:42.
Fixed 5-10-2007
xanga_05-11-2007.php (7.2 kB) - added by everglow on 05/11/07 07:41:11.
xanga_LATEST.php (8.7 kB) - added by everglow on 05/11/07 21:01:32.
Completed version. Enjoy!

Change History

04/18/06 04:33:51 changed by dinkumator

  • attachment xanga.php.txt added.

xanga importer

04/24/06 14:53:04 changed by dinkumator

  • attachment xanga.php added.

non-borked version

05/19/06 06:24:23 changed by ryan

  • milestone set to 2.1.

09/26/06 00:27:39 changed by foolswisdom

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to wontfix.

Closing WONTFIX for now. As this likely needs additional maintenance and testing to check in.

Owner anyone?

05/10/07 23:20:48 changed by everglow

  • keywords changed from import xanga to import xanga archive.
  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.
  • summary changed from Xanga archive importer to Xanga Archive Importer.

Old version was no longer working with WP 2.1.x.

Bugs: Dates for posts and comments in the 1970's (parsing error) - CORRECTED Timestamps still not parsing correctly - IN PROCESS 5/10/2007

05/10/07 23:22:11 changed by everglow

  • owner changed from anonymous to everglow.
  • status changed from reopened to new.

05/10/07 23:23:42 changed by everglow

  • attachment xanga.2.php added.

Fixed 5-10-2007

05/11/07 00:42:27 changed by rob1n

  • milestone changed from 2.1 to 2.4.

05/11/07 07:23:34 changed by everglow

BUG CORRECTION - script was not parsing entries correctly; only importing first line. Corrected as of 05-11-2007.

05/11/07 07:29:22 changed by everglow

  • status changed from new to assigned.

05/11/07 07:41:11 changed by everglow

  • attachment xanga_05-11-2007.php added.

(in reply to: ↑ description ) 05/11/07 07:52:47 changed by everglow

Be sure to download xanga_LATEST.php!

05/11/07 21:01:32 changed by everglow

  • attachment xanga_LATEST.php added.

Completed version. Enjoy!

10/03/07 15:49:35 changed by Nazgul

  • keywords changed from import xanga archive to dev-feedback.

Do we want to include a Xanga Archive importer in core, or is it plugin territory as importer plugins became possible in 2.3?

10/03/07 15:58:41 changed by matt

For importers I think we should make as many core as possible. (It's an exception to our normal guideline of leaving things to plugins.)

10/03/07 16:02:43 changed by Nazgul

  • keywords deleted.

(follow-up: ↓ 13 ) 01/15/08 11:02:34 changed by spencerp

With alot of the recent changes from when the last patch was added here, is it possible for this importer to be updated? OR, will it still be okay the way it is, or what?

(in reply to: ↑ 12 ; follow-up: ↓ 14 ) 01/15/08 11:07:49 changed by DD32

Replying to spencerp:

OR, will it still be okay the way it is, or what?

I think thats it.. It looks to use wp_insert_post() and wp_insert_comment(), The API's shouldn't've changed any.

Why dont you give it a test and see if the importer still works? :) - A Test Export file might be useful to attach for non-Xanga users to test with too..

(in reply to: ↑ 13 ; follow-up: ↓ 15 ) 01/15/08 11:22:49 changed by spencerp

Replying to DD32:

Why dont you give it a test and see if the importer still works? :) - A Test Export file might be useful to attach for non-Xanga users to test with too..

Oh geez, I never even used Xanga before. Hahaha. See, this is where it'd be awesome to have just anyone from the public come around and "try things out". Well, especially for things like this. I know there's probably alot of folks out there that used Xanga before. *cough* I just happen to be one of those folks that haven't. LOL!

(in reply to: ↑ 14 ) 01/15/08 11:26:00 changed by DD32

Replying to spencerp:

Oh geez, I never even used Xanga before.

Honestly, Its the same here, I've never even heard of it (Well, i probably have in passing). I'd gladly test it out if i had a example export though.

01/15/08 11:52:05 changed by spencerp

Like some of the tickets with patches that need testing, I'd say... slap it in Trunk and it's bound to be "tested" eventually. That's partially the reason for "us" testers anyway. Heck, if all else fails, before release they can just revert back / remove the stuff that doesn't hold up to it's duties. =P

02/12/08 09:38:18 changed by pishmishy

  • milestone changed from 2.5 to 2.6.

Bumping milestone for feature freeze.