Importign from Quick Blog

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  familymaz · Member · Oct 3, 2006 at 12:48 am

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  Hi-

  I imported a bunch of entries from Quick Blog (free blog from GoDaddy.com) It shows all came across right, with comments and all. Issue is, I can’t the posts. I can see the comments, and when I click on the comments, i can see the post. If I then edit the post, and set the page to published, it shows up! Now if only all my posts had comments, i can do this, but there is now way for me to get all the posts to show up!

  Did I do something wrong?

  Thanks,
  Paul

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  timethief · Member · Oct 3, 2006 at 3:34 pm

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  If this is still a problem I believe you should send in a feedback (button on top right hand corner of any page) to sysadmin as volunteers on the forum don’t have backend access and this sounds like that kind of help is what you need.

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  emworm · Member · Mar 1, 2007 at 5:26 pm

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  Hey Paul – I just did the same thing and experienced the same problem. Godaddy’s blog is proprietory – meaning, they don’t want you to leave so they make it seem hard to transfer your blog.
  Its super easy though.. this is what I did…

  Theres no ‘one click’ way to do this –
  you have to manually go into every entry in your quickblog (in your admin/manage entries page)
  highlight your entire post (including images) and then paste it into a new post in wordpress.
  Yes, slightly annoying but the fact that you can just highlight the images is nice….. No re-uploading.

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  emworm · Member · Mar 2, 2007 at 7:59 pm

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  Quick update – If you close your Quickblog account all your images will go bye-bye because its using the quickblog url to find the image.

  What I did to fix THIS problem… I uploaded all my images to my own server via ftp (this way I can batch upload instead of doing it one at a time.) If all your images are uniquely named then you’re fine. Mine aren’t so this is what I did…

  Open FTP client or hosting control panel – create new folder – create subfolders of all your posts –
  upload your images to the corresponding post folder.

  Go into your wordpress dashboard – manage entries – go through each entry and edit the code to reflect the new location of your image.

  Example – If your new folder is called blog and one of your subfolders is 090306 (I labeled mine the date of my post)
  then your code would look something like this

  <img src=”http://yourwebsite.com/blogfolder/090306/picture.jpg” />

  instead of this:

  <img src=”http://app.onlinequickblog.com/images/1234-1234/picture.jpg” />

  If you only have a few pictures then you should probably just upload them individually –