import from Yahoo 360 and personal website
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I have an old blog on Yahoo 360 as well as one I created manually on my website. I would like to import both of them to WordPress as one large blog. Can someone help me do that?
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/nod to lora
Yes, with the Yahoo 360 and standard websites, it will end up being a copy and paste project.
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Yes, but what if you have a file larger than 15 MB? I used to write quite a lot on my blog on 360.
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blondehoneybunny, by writing quite a lot do you mean just text or pictures & videos mixed in? Because just text doesn’t take up that much space unless it’s the size of a novel. Do you know if it is a file larger than 15 MB?
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I’m having the same problem as blondehoneybunny. I’ve downloaded my 360 blog as a zip file (318 MB). When I go to import the file, I noticed it says the limit is 15 MB. I know very little about file sizes, but I appear to be way over the 15 MB limit and I’m not able to upload my 360 file. Yes, I used lots of video, pictures, etc. on 360.
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You will need to break up the file into multiple smaller file sizes to be able to import it to your WordPress.com blog
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Any suggestions on how to do that (for people like me who don’t have a clue what they’re doing) I tried a Google search, but geez, wading through techie talk is like swimming upstream. LOL
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when I import , it error “Could not unzip your Yahoo! 360 export file. Did you upload the ZIP file? “
can you help me import ?
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The import file limit is 2MB I think so it can be time consuming on really large files. This is from the wordpress codex and should apply here as well as at .ORG:
Break the WordPress WXR file into smaller pieces by separating the data between posts and pasting the header/footer into each file. 1. Always have the header <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/" > <channel> including all info like category, tags, etc to just before the first <item> 2. Always have the footer </channel> </rss> 3. In between, add the posts start with <item> end with </item> and check to see whether the XML file you're creating is less than or equal to 2MB. You'll get the hang of it.Note: Do not paste the above and for the header and footer. Each header is going to be unique and you must use the header and footer from YOUR file.
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my file size is 4.33 mb but when I try to upload it says:
Could not unzip your Yahoo! 360 export file. Did you upload the ZIP file?
can any one help please
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Hi,
If you got this “Could not unzip your Yahoo! 360 export file. Did you upload the ZIP file?”, just try again, next time should be OK :)
For me, I got 1 serious issue, all the image link (<img src=something) are stripped out during the import. Anyone knows how to fix this ?
Thanks
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Did you open the export file in a plain text editor and check to see if the links were actually there? I know of another 360 import where the image links came in just fine, but her images were hosted at flickr or somewhere like that.
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I managed to figure out this problem:
“Could not unzip your Yahoo! 360 export file. Did you upload the ZIP file? “
You have to extract your ZIP file from Yahoo!360, then select the files and re-zip them…
The main problem is, you cannot have a “folder” inside your zip file… it confuses the WordPress import tool…I tried several times before I realised this solution!
Good luck!
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I did this a couple days ago. I didn’t unzip the file before I uploaded it, it was 46mb and it went through ok so the 15mb limit must be a percaution. The first time I tried, it timed out so I did it again and it worked. But when I went in to check, I had duplicates. So much for WordPress being smart and not importing duplicates.
The other issue is that the photos in each blog aren’t showing up. All there is is this: src=”http://reneerox.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/1200977109-hr-165.jpg” I checked and all of the photos uploaded and are in the exact spot as the address indicates, but no photo in the blog. This is what it looks like: http://reneerox.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/roxies-2nd-international-show/
It also added a “” before every apostrophy. Annoying but not something I’m willing to try to fix on that many posts.
I would like to fix the photo issue though so if anyone has any thoughts on how to do that, I would like to hear it.
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I have the same issue with photos. Everything uploaded just fine, and I can see the images in my account thingy, but the blog page just has the links (and they aren’t active). How to make the pix appear?
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Me too on the photo/image problem. My media library shows them well, but the blog just posts an image address–no picture posted. Would love some insight here! Thank you!
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We need a link to the blog if you want us to take a look at things. Perhaps better yet a link to a post where this is happening.
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@ if this is the blog you are talking about, on this post, Migraines, Lies and the DMV, the link at the top of that post is not a proper HTML image link. What is there is
src=”http://jodiq.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1243084356-hr-502.jpg”An proper HTML image link looks like this
<img src=”http://jodiq.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1243084356-hr-502.jpg” />
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