January 29

How to Move from LiveJournal to WordPress

There were the times when practically every web user had a LiveJournal blog. But the times have changed and most contemporary bloggers use WordPress themes based sites as their major blogging platforms. However, if you have a lot of useful content on your LJ blog it can be easily made the transfer to WordPress without losing any posts. This is the step-by-step instruction on how to do this.

Moving the blog from LiveJournal to one of WordPress themes

The best choice for a blogging platform, not a secret, is WordPress. The process of transferring data a lot easier than it may seem importing content from LJ to WP:

Imagine that you have a bare site on WP;
You can import all the content in a couple of clicks on the Tools menu;
Select Import Livejournal (install and run through the import plugin API LJ);
You just need to enter only your username and password and start the import process: all positions with Khatami, tags, links to users, privacy settings - all this will be transferred to the database of your standalone blog.

The transfer of articles from LiveJournal to WooCommerce template

At first you need to download the archive records from his journal. This can be done on the page "Export Log". On this page, you will see the following form to export XML:

Select the month, the archive you want to download. In the "Format" menu you need to select XML. Do not forget to tick the "Title";
Click on "Continue ...";
Open the page to save. To do this, select the menu of your browser;
File-> Save Page As ... (for FireFox) or File-> Save As ... (for Internet Explorer);
In the window that opens, change the file name to export_do_bml.xml export_do_bml_12_2008.xml, indicating the month and year in the title.

Please note that this procedure will have to produce for each month separately. Download all the dates of the months go to the administration panel of the blog by WooCommerce themes. In the "Tools" menu (in WordPress 2.7 to the left), select "Import". On the new page you will see a list of systems that WordPress allows you to import (transfer) data. Click to Continue. On the new page by clicking on "Browse ...", then select the XML-file export LJ and click on "Upload file and import". The phase of transition of LJ to standalone blogs – you probably need to review the best short description for the longest and "actually" moving to WooCommerce themes. Transferring records from LJ built in WordPress template by default. Export the posts. To do this, you need to go to the page of exports - http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml, enter the month and year from the archive posts you plan for exports. Select the XML format and click on the "Continue" button. Save the resulting file.

Then you need to import records. To do this, WooCommerce admin panel go to Manage - Import, select LiveJournal, download files and enjoy the result. Everything goes pretty quickly, but unfortunately may lose formatting records are not recognized by tags, and import records "month" is not so fast. Transfer of LJ blog to WordPress themes and WooCommerce templates is quite easy and can be done even by a non-specialist. But if you have any questions about moving your blog from LJ to WP, you can visit our forum or ask your requests from our professional Technical Support group.