Importing Blogger into Expression Engine
posted at 2:22 am
on Nov. 1, 2005
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Here's a quick pointer for anyone trying to import from blogger into Expression Engine from pMachine.
First go to this site and watch the demo. Then, remember that if you want to import comments, you also need to change the comment time stamp (in addition to the entry time stamp). Then, use this template:
<Blogger> TITLE: <BlogItemTitle><$></BlogItemTitle> AUTHOR: <$> DATE: <$> ----- BODY: <$> ----- <BlogItemCommentsEnabled> <BlogItemComments> COMMENT: AUTHOR: <$> DATE: <$> <$> ----- </BlogItemComments> </BlogItemCommentsEnabled> -------- </Blogger>
Then, because Blogger doesn't let you get the person's URL separate from their name, and because it codes names differently depending on whether they're registered or not, run this search and replace:
AUTHOR: ((<a href="(.+)">(.+)</a>)|(<span class="anon-comment-author">(.+)</span>)|(Anonymous))
AUTHOR: \4\6\7\rURL: \3
If that was all gibberish to you, then you'd probably like most of the rest of what I write here, but since I just spent two hours figuring this all out, I thought I'd share.
