Livejournal -> Wordpress, round 1
Oct. 11th, 2010 12:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellMy first attempt to export my livejournal to wordpress.com was a bit of a mess.
First, livejournal has this proprietary "lj-embed" tag which means that my embedded videos and many photos won't export properly. (The Dreamwidth export had the same issue.) I could write a script to handle the conversion for the 120 or so affected entries, and maybe that's the easiest way around it. I'm starting to think that it may make more sense to use the open source wordpress codebase and do manual hosting as opposed to just doing the standard wordpress.com offering.
Second, there was an option to import my protected lj entries as password-protected wordpress entries. "Oh great, an extra backup!" I thought. What the importer didn't say is that the titles of those entries would still be visible to everyone. While I am okay with just about everything I've put on the internet eventually becoming public, I'd rather the provocatively titles private entries remain private for now.
I'm debating whether it's worth exporting blog entries at all. At first I had a vision of parallel blogs and automatic comment cross-posting, with the wordpress blog forming a more curated central web presence and the livejournal blog being more of a catchall blog and a place to more privately share some things with a limited audience. However now I'm thinking the Wordpress site could just contain a selection of my best entries on various topics, with links back to livejournal for more details or a more complete picture. It would still serve a function as a central web presence, but people poking around for more would end up at livejournal.
First, livejournal has this proprietary "lj-embed" tag which means that my embedded videos and many photos won't export properly. (The Dreamwidth export had the same issue.) I could write a script to handle the conversion for the 120 or so affected entries, and maybe that's the easiest way around it. I'm starting to think that it may make more sense to use the open source wordpress codebase and do manual hosting as opposed to just doing the standard wordpress.com offering.
Second, there was an option to import my protected lj entries as password-protected wordpress entries. "Oh great, an extra backup!" I thought. What the importer didn't say is that the titles of those entries would still be visible to everyone. While I am okay with just about everything I've put on the internet eventually becoming public, I'd rather the provocatively titles private entries remain private for now.
I'm debating whether it's worth exporting blog entries at all. At first I had a vision of parallel blogs and automatic comment cross-posting, with the wordpress blog forming a more curated central web presence and the livejournal blog being more of a catchall blog and a place to more privately share some things with a limited audience. However now I'm thinking the Wordpress site could just contain a selection of my best entries on various topics, with links back to livejournal for more details or a more complete picture. It would still serve a function as a central web presence, but people poking around for more would end up at livejournal.
