Duh. And ... Help?
I just realized that when I post comments and such while I'm logged into Google, I often show up as "oldewoman" and not "purple chai". I'm still me. Those are my two main names (which have the same source, btw, the poem Warning: by Jenny Joseph), but this is just to tell you all that when you see "oldewoman" it's the same old purple chai from New Jersey. Okay, business taken care of.
But now .. I just don't see how you guys are importing your dland archives into wordpress. Can anyone give me a little lesson in it? I know you're importing them month by month, but I absolutely cannot find out how you're managine this neat trick. Any info would make my day!
watching SNL :: entry#1491
I knew "oldewoman" was you; never fear!!!
ReplyDeleteI have some not-so-good news for you. There is no easy way to redo your archives. You need to cut & paste your old Diaryland entry into Blogger manually, one by one. (Lisele writes a good instruction manual here. The theory is the same on Blogger. There is a link on the bottom right of the composition screen that says something about a Timestamp, and there is where you will change the timestamp to insert the old entry where it goes in the timeline. The only thing she leaves out is that you need to make sure you're under your Code tab in Blogger, not the Visual (or whatever Blogger calls it; I forget).
The cool part about this is once you have this finished in Blogger, it will be a piece of cake to move somewhere else, should the need arise. Most other sites will import Blogger material quite easily, and I do believe Blogger exports it as well. So it's something we just have to do once. I have 800+ entries to move; I think I'm a third of the way there. Good luck!
Although where I post is not as cool or mainstream as wordpress or blogger (MySpace), I also had to copy and paste each individual entry from d-land to MS and then change the date/time stamp to reflect the date I'd originally posted. It's a pain in the arse, but worth it.
ReplyDeleteHoly Moly! I've been here since 2002. I'm not doing that! I just Downloaded my whole diary from D'land. All the html is already in it. Maybe you could do it by month and year and break it up into days as you need them. I wish I had an answer for you to help you like you helped me. *sad face*
ReplyDeleteI think I renamed the default for you when I set you, but I'm not sure. I had to rename a bunch. But I have your oldewoman name for my private LJ posts (because I can trust a librarian lady not to blab my famly secrets)
ReplyDeleteanyway... default names can be renamed on our Readers.