Import says it worked, but it didn't.
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I’m trying to import a posterous export. The status email says “Your WordPress import was successful.” But nothing happened. There are over a hundred posts in the export, and they’re not showing up.
It would be really helpful if the email said something more than just “it worked.” A count of the imported posts, a link to them, something.
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Hi there – were you able to get this sorted out? I see posts and pages on this site now – https://gcanyon.wordpress.com – is this the site you were referring to?
If you still need any help, please let me know.
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No, I wasn’t able to figure this out. The posts you see are not the ones I’m trying to import.
You are looking at the correct site.
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Thanks for letting me know. I don’t see any pending imports on that site at the moment – would you mind trying the import again?
If it still doesn’t work, I’ll ask you to send me the import file for testing. Thanks.
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You don’t see any pending imports because each time the import claims to complete successfully, as I said originally. I’ve run the import several times, and each time the result is: “Your WordPress import was successful.”
It doesn’t say what it did, though. It would be so helpful if it said something like:
Found 112 posts, they are now published.
or
Found 112 posts,
105 are now pending and you can publish them in the dashboard.
7 posts could not be imported, details are below.I’ll try again.
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Thanks for keeping me posted. Would you mind giving me the URL of the Posterous site you’re importing from so I can do a few checks? Thanks.
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gcanyon.posterous.com
Here’s the start of the XML file, with one post. I edited the file before attempting the import. The full sequence of events here (over the last several years) is:
1. I started at gcanyon.wordpress.com
2. I started gcanyon.posterous.com
3. I migrated the posts from gcanyon.wordpress.com to gcanyon.posterous.com (around 2010).
4. I exported from gcanyon.posterous.com
5. I removed the <item></item> entries from the file that matched the original wordpress posts.So the file should just contain the new posterous posts. It still validates at http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp and the importer reports success, with no complaints.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<rss xmlns:excerpt=”http://wordpress.org/export/1.0/excerpt/” 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/” version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>Geoff Canyon’s Appeal to Authority</title>
<link/>
<description/>
<pubDate>Mon Jun 29 22:49:43 -0700 2009</pubDate>
<generator>http://posterous.com</generator>
<language>en</language>
<wp:wxr_version>1.0</wp:wxr_version>
<wp:base_site_url>http://gcanyon.posterous.com</wp:base_site_url>
<wp:base_blog_url>http://gcanyon.posterous.com</wp:base_blog_url>
<image>
<url>http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/81479/n720801044_5347.jpg</url>
<title>Geoff Canyon’s Appeal to Authority</title>
<link>http://gcanyon.posterous.com</link>
</image>
<item>
<title>Watch drops of water in space ‘orbit’ a knitting needle like tiny planets</title>
<link>http://gcanyon.posterous.com/watch-drops-of-water-in-space-orbit-a-knittin</link>
<pubDate>Sat Mar 10 10:22:00 -0800 2012</pubDate>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoff Canyon]]></dc:creator>
<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
<category domain=”category” nicename=”uncategorized”><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
<guid isPermaLink=”false”>http://gcanyon.posterous.com/watch-drops-of-water-in-space-orbit-a-knittin</guid>
<description/>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class=”posterous_bookmarklet_entry”> <div class=’p_embed p_image_embed’><img alt=”Media_httpimggawkeras_codqf” height=”225″ src=”http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/gcanyon/nwjgJdHzfizGdrgcjscucBvzcHwFpfarrixyksAfcfAfyxdroFonpEAghtGv/media_httpimggawkeras_CodqF.jpg.scaled500.jpg” width=”300″ /></div><div class=”posterous_quote_citation”>via io9.com</div> <p>More space-water-weightlessness awesomeness.</p></div>]]></content:encoded>
<excerpt:encoded><![CDATA[via io9.com More space-water-weightlessness awesomeness.]]></excerpt:encoded>
<wp:post_date>Sat Mar 10 10:22:00 -0800 2012</wp:post_date>
<wp:post_date_gmt>%= display_date %></wp:post_date_gmt>
<wp:comment_status>open</wp:comment_status>
<wp:ping_status>open</wp:ping_status>
<wp:post_name>watch-drops-of-water-in-space-orbit-a-knittin</wp:post_name>
<wp:status>publish</wp:status>
<wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent>
<wp:menu_order>0</wp:menu_order>
<wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type>
<wp:post_password/>
<wp:is_sticky>0</wp:is_sticky>
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Hi there – I’m going to send you an email so you can send me the import file you’re having trouble with. I’ll then do some tests at this end.
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I received your file, thanks. I tested it at my end and the file did not import correctly, so there may be an issue with the file itself.
I’m going to have our developers take a look at the file and will keep you posted here. Would you let me know what program you used to edit it?
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I’ve had a look at your file with one of our developers, and it looks like some pieces of the code that you edited manually are not being recognized by our Posterous parser – even though they may be valid XML – and that’s preventing our importer from working correctly.
Would it be possible for you to email me a copy of your original, unedited export file so we can take a look and do some more tests? Please reply to the email I sent – with the subject line intact – so I’ll be sure to receive it. Thanks.
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