Quite honestly, I’m not sure what I did differently this last time that I didn’t do previously. I’m not a programmer but I’ll try to explain what I did… 🙂
1. First although my new photoblog was going to be on a different domain, I created a WordPress “Test Blog” on the same domain as the old PixelPost photoblog.
2. I started with a clean install of WordPress.
3. I grabbed the script from this website:
http://shiftingpixel.com/2006/05/21/new-design-now-wordpress/
You’ll have to look down into the comments section to see the script link. I edited the script in 2 places where it says:
// Import Post data into WordPress
under that section, you’ll find 2 instances of:
'post_content' => $body,
I changed both to read:
‘post_content’ => ‘<img src=”http://www.myurl.com/wp-content/uploads/’ . $image . ‘” alt=”” />’ . $body,
where the url was my actual new domain name. You don’t want to have to change the url for every post once you move it to your new domain. 😉
4. I upload the script to the import directory located in the wp-content directory.
5. Now for me, my files were not set at 777 and the import script balked at this during previous attempts. So before running the import script on a clean WP install, I changed it to the correct permissions via FireFTP program in Firefox. I also created under uploads new directories of /2009/07 with 777 permissions. (use your current year/month for the directory names.)
I also uploaded all of my images from pixelpost images directory to my wp-content/uploads directory. You’ll want to upload the images to where you indicated they would reside in the pixelpost import script. (see step 3 above)
6. Go into your WordPress admin to Tools -> Import. You’ll see Pixelpost now listed among the software to import from.
7. Click on “PixelPost”. It will then ask you for your PixelPost configuration such as:
Pixelpost Database User
Pixelpost Database Password
Pixelpost Database Name
Pixelpost Database Host (default is localhost)
Pixelpost Table Prefix (default is pixelpost_ )
When finished inputting information, click “Import Categories”.
7. WordPress will then run the script to import categories, posts, and comments.
8. I then went to a post, clicked “Edit” and changed the URL of the photo to the local Test Blog url. I wanted to verify that I could actually see the image. I viewed my Test Blog and viola! All of my posts and comments were uploaded and viewable.
9. I then went and did a “Quick Edit” on each post to assign each to a category. The categories do import in but the posts did not keep their assignments to the categories. All posts were assigned to “uncategorized”.
10. Finally, I exported my WordPress (Tools -> Export) and imported into the WordPress on my new domain name.
I don’t know if there could have been a easier way of doing this import but at this moment, I’m happy! Now I can concentrate on designing the blog instead of fighting an import! 😉
Hope this helps someone!
~ Christine
