Importing LiveJournal entries and their Security Settings
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Hello. I would like to import my LiveJournal entries to WordPress. Actually, it’s my InsaneJournal entries, which export the same exact way. I know how to export the entries to an XML file with the site’s exporter or ljarchive. However, once I import the entries to WordPress, all of my Private posts are Public. Is there a way to keep the security settings so this won’t happen?
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Set the entire blog to private; that’s the only way to protect them from the very start. Then you go back through and change the settings one by one for each post. If they are public for even a minute search engines will grab them and have cached versions, although not every reader will be smart enough to find them.
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Which would be good advice if I didn’t have 4,000 entries. I still find it hard to believe that WordPress can import my comments from LJ but not my security settings.
But thank you.
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I’m not 100% sure that it won’t catch your security settings, but until you receive a definitive yes or no from someone who’s done this exact import OR staff, this is the best way to protect your entries.
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Well, I don’t know how to protect all of my entries once I’ve imported them. Only thing I know how to do is make sure my entries have minimal search engine inclusion.
In the meanwhile, I’m trying out a free host, where I can install the Category Access plugin, which has worked good enough, because all my old entries automatically go into one category, which I can then make private.
I do hope that staff looks at my comments because I do know I am not the only LJ user looking for a new blog service and security settings are a big deal.
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