Title: IM-porter
Author: Christopher Finke
Published: <strong>November 26, 2013</strong>
Last modified: September 5, 2014

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# IM-porter

 By [Christopher Finke](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/im-porter.1.0.1.zip)

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## Description

Problem: You have years’ worth of chat transcripts saved on your computer, and you’d
love to stroll down memory lane and reread some of them, but how? Manually open 
each one in your browser or chat program?? There’s got to be a better way!

Solution: Install IM-porter, the WordPress plugin that imports your instant message
transcripts to your WordPress blog so you can read through conversations from ages
past just as easily as you browse the archives of a blog.

After activating the plugin, visit Tools > Import > Chat Transcripts. Then, you 
can upload a single transcript or a ZIP of transcripts.

Currently supports transcripts from:

 * AOL Instant Messenger
 * MSN Messenger
 * Colloquy
 * Adium

Imported posts are given the ‘chat’ post format, and you have the option of tagging
them with the participants’ usernames, making them public or private, and adding
them to a category.

The output may not be perfect. (The output will not be perfect.) The original raw
transcript is saved as post meta so the post can be updated later if you want.

If you want to style your chats like AIM used to display them (like in the screenshot
I included), you can use this CSS:

    ```
    .post.format-chat .entry-content p {     margin-bottom: 0 !important; }  .post.format-chat .entry-content span {     color: #00f;     font-weight: bold; }  .post.format-chat .entry-content span.participant-1 {     color: #f00; }  .post.format-chat .entry-content span time {     font-size: x-small; } 
    ```

To write your own importer for a given transcript format, write a class that implements
the functions in `Chat_IMporter_Format` and add it to the array filtered by the `
chat_importer_formats` filter. See `Chat_IMporter_Format_AIM_HTML` for an example.

## Screenshots

[⌊An example of an imported transcript.⌉⌊An example of an imported transcript.⌉[

An example of an imported transcript.

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## Contributors & Developers

“IM-porter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Christopher Finke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/)

[Translate “IM-porter” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/im-porter)

### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

1.0

Support for Adium, AOL Instant Messenger, Colloquy, and MSN Messenger

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 * Tags
 * [aim](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/aim/)[chat](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chat/)
   [chats](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/chats/)[import](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/import/)
   [importer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/importer/)[msn](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/msn/)
   [transcripts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/transcripts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/im-porter/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Christopher Finke ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/)

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