Move iWeb MobileMe Blog to Wordpress

@Mirko You are a star, thank you. Just before seeing your script I managed to get help from the guys at Ragesw who were very helpful.

@Treffynnom agree with you completely regarding Apple's approach to this. Shame on them for leaving iWeb users orphans and with no support. I wasted a lot of time talking to Apple Care and Mobile Me. There is no procedure to escalate issues and not even published procedures explaining how to complain... I was told to send a carbon letter to headquarters!

I'm trying this script for my blog http://web.me.com/wgmccallum/History/ which I want to migrate to mccallumfamily.wordpress.com. I get the following

wgmccallum@Redtail-4:~/Downloads$ perl ./iweb2wordpress.pl

title=Home

description=sorry, no description found, but you can adjust afterwards.

============================================================exported 0 postings

and a more or less empty xml file. I've set the old adress, new address, and from to settings as follows:

# from to

# set to 0 for unlimited

my $start_id = 0;

my $end_id = 5;

# ------------------------

# old adress

my $blog_url = 'http://web.me.com/wgmccallum/History/Home/blog-archive.xml';

#my $blog_url = 'http://web.me.com/joelgrimes/Joel_Grimes_Photography/Blog/blog-archive.xml';

# ------------------------

# optional Basic Authentification .htaccess

my $ht_username = '';

my $ht_password = '';

my $domain = 'web.me.com:80';

my $realm = 'me.com';

# ------------------------

# new adress

$VAR{'base_site_url'} = 'http://mccallumfamily.wordpress.com';

$VAR{'base_blog_url'} = 'http://mccallumfamily.wordpress.com'; # mostly the same as base_site_url

$VAR{'base_upload_url'} = 'http://mccallumfamily.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/'; # url to upload dir

$VAR{'author_login'} = 'Author';

$VAR{'author_display_name'} = 'Author';

$VAR{'author_email'} = 'noemail@internet.de';

$VAR{'author_first_name'} = 'First';

$VAR{'author_last_name'} = 'Last';

$VAR{'language'} = 'en';

Any tips appreciated! Thanks.

Does not exist :

http://web.me.com/joelgrimes/Joel_Grimes_Photography/Blog/blog-archive.xml

Does not exist :

http://web.me.com/joelgrimes/Joel_Grimes_Photography/

Nothing found here :

http://web.me.com/joelgrimes/

And links here :

http://web.me.com/wgmccallum/History/Home/blog-archive.xml

redirect to :

http://www.mccallumfamily.org/History/Home/Entries/2010/11/27_neg-file-151-04.ht ml

Perhaps you created the problem yourself.

Thanks. The Joel Grimes ones are commented out in the perl file (note the # at the beginning of the line), they were there in the original to illustrative the format, so they are not causing the problem. But notice that I am following the same format as the example.

I downloaded the script.

I noticed that it uses :

my @blog_urls = ('http://etcetera....');

The ( and ) are missing in your code.

Thanks again! Did you download version 1.5? That one has the parentheses, the other one does not. Both have the same problem for me.

I downloaded version 1.5.

If it doesn't work, why not contact the author.

That's what I am trying to do here. The only contact info on his web page is a link to this discussion list.

From the pl file and the domainname you can determine his address.

http://whois.domaintools.com/weinschenks.com

Ah, I had missed the significance if the comment about the links in blog-archive.xml. The changes you suggest worked perfectly, thanks very much!

@MirkoW I've procrastinated long enough! I'm planning to use your script this afternoon, if I can figure it out.

Every line of code that has the # means I need to change that code to my site, is that correct?

My first blog site is:

http://web.me.com/patrickfifth/Buenos_Aires/Bienvenidos.html

I have one more blog to convert though I don't have very many comments.

Once I'm successful with the old blog I want to change this one:

http://web.me.com/patrickfifth/blog/PatrickBennettPhotoBlog/PatrickBennettPhotoB log.html

Thank you so much for your help on these problems!

Patrick

@MirkoW First, thanks so much for creating this script... what a huge help.

I've tried using it with some success, but there are a couple of issues I can't seem to resolve. I'm hoping there's an easy answer to my questions.

The blog I'm working with is currently mirrored in two places: The original site is at http://web.me.com/geoffreyg/Cars/Blog/Blog.html and I've recently reconfigured the iWeb project for a new hosting account, so the same content is mirrored at http://lanciainfo.com/Lancia_Info/Blog/Blog.html (sans comments).

I've tried running the script (v1.5) on the me.com site and it always results in the "0 postings" message that other users have experienced, although I'm sure the xml feed exists and is entered properly in the script.

I have better luck if I reconfigure the script and run it on the blog at lanciainfo.com – in this case all posts are successfully exported and I have been able to migrate them to a new wordpress installation at http://blog.lanciainfo.com. However, there are two significant issues: first, the post dates all seem to be reset to the same date, and second, the embedded image links are all broken. I suspect these two problems are connected since WP sorts image files into folders that reflect the date they are posted.

Can you offer any insight as to what's happening or how I might fix these issues?

Thanks again,

Justin