I have been playing with my new blog for a week or two now and I am very excited to say that I have successfully imported this livejournal blog to it’s new home: http://karenism.com/blog. Please update your feed if you use one. I will be continuing to play with the css of the new blog, but I’m pretty much at the point where I don’t really care about colors and font sizes anymore (not really. I’m just sick of it right now). I will likely use flock to post, so if you don’t use feeds you will still see the same posts here.
Importing was semi-painless process. I used ljarchive to make an xml file of all my posts with comments, and then used this script to import. One quirk I noticed was that the resulting posts state that there are no comments even though clicking on it shows the comments. Also, commenting is closed for all those posts. I can turn on commenting for each post, but I haven’t found a way to batch change posts yet. The only thing that sucks is that it did not import my tags/categories. I may look for another script that deals with that, but I also may just leave it.
After having fussed with the script to get it to work I discovered that there is a dedicated wordpress page that allows me to import from different blogs. I want to try out that feature (which is why I’m making this last post on lj).
BTW I highly recommend wordpress. It is easy to use and contains a lot of flexibility to allow more techie people to customize the blog to their preference.
EDIT: Ok I just tried the wordpress importing and it doesn’t have that “no comment” issue that the other script did. Still no threading but it is much easier.
Does it cross post comments?
By the way, I can’t believe you actually GOT karenism.com. Damn you.
no, unfortunately not, which is why i would prefer peoople start using the wordpress blog. It also didn’t do threading when I imported. Oh well.
The funny part about the url is that karenism is taken at myspace, but the .com and .org names were both available. I think it’s the lack of girls interested in owning domains.