Plugin to transfer content from TravelPod
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With news that the TravelPod website is soon to close down, many people will be desperate to preserve their blogs and woven picture content. there is a plugin available that apparently allows content and pictures to be directly copied and pasted to WordPress and which finds all woven pictures and adds them to the WordPress media library – i.e they are no longer externally hosted on Travelpod and – therefore – the blog will not lose them when TP closes down.
http://internetmedicineman.github.io/image-teleporter/
I started my wordPress site so that I could copy across all my blogs and this plugin would be very useful to me and probably many others looking for somewhere to preserve their online blogs.
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Hi there,
Thanks for sharing this info. However, Travelpod has also provided their own WordPress-compatible export file that should be much simpler to use to migrate your content across.
You can read their instructions on how this works here:
http://www.travelpod.com/blog/2017/05/15/wordpress-import-intructions/
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Thanks – I just saw information on that export file the other day. I’m waiting for mine to be compiled – fingers crossed it will work as advertised!
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Hi guys, I am trying to upload the TravelPod files into a new WordPress blog and can’t get beyond the upload function. I am getting the following errors:
If i grab entire zip folder:
<html> <head><title>413 Request Entity Too Large</title></head> <body bgcolor=”white”> <center><h1>413 Request Entity Too Large</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx</center> </body> </html> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –> <!– a padding to disable MSIE and Chrome friendly error page –>
Try another file or contact support.If i grab only xml file:
Missing required body data.
Try another file or contact support.What am I doing wrong?
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It’s not possible to import the .zip folder, only the .xml file. Did you open the .zip folder and drag the file from there, or did you extract the .zip folder first?
You need to do the latter. If you extract the .zip folder it will create a regular folder that’s not zipped, and then you drag the file from THAT folder. If you try to use the file before it’s extracted, you’re uploading a compressed file which our importer cannot read.
On Windows, right-click the .zip folder and select Extract All.
On a Mac, double clicking the .zip folder should automatically extract the files.
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I did extract and then attempt to load just the xml file from the extracted folder. Still getting an error:
That method is not allowed.
Try another file or contact support.Not sure what I could be doing wrong :/
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It seems the drag and drop method for uploading the XML files from Travelpod are an issue, but I don’t know why.
Here’s a WordPressdotcom forum thread from another Travelpod user that may help: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/importing-travel-blog-from-travelpod-missing-required-body-data?replies=6#post-2950041
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On what site are you trying to import, please? I can check if the importer is perhaps stuck, but I need to know the site to do that.
Please check what happens is you click in the import box and select the file to upload instead or dragging it. Also check if the WP-Admin importer perhaps work.
To reach the WP-Admin importer, add “/wp-admin” to the end of your site’s URL, then go to Tools ->Import ->WordPress in the menu.
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Thanks justjennifer and kokkieh.
I am attempting this on WP where I followed exact instructions given by TP (https://wordpress.com/settings/import/username.wordpress.com). Tried the file picker instead now and it results in the same error.
Thanks for the tip on WP-Admin kokkieh. Tried that and waiting for it to process. Hopefully, that’ll do the trick.
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Thanks justjennifer and kokkieh.
I am attempting this on WP where I followed exact instructions given by TP (https://wordpress.com/settings/import/username.wordpress.com). Tried the file picker instead now and it results in the same error.
Thanks for the tip on WP-Admin kokkieh. Tried that and waiting for it to process. Hopefully, that’ll do the trick.
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Reporting success. Using the admin importer did the trick! Thanks again.
Waiting to upload media now. Pre-mature question, as I’ll probably find out soon: Will I need to assign each image or will they be auto-magically mapped to their original post? If the latter is not the case, I fear, this exercise will be prohibitive for me to ever finish this migration project (due to 3k+ pictures and a handful of videos…)
Also, does anyone know if a WP theme has crystallized that works best to mimic what Travelpod used to have?
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I’m afraid the images transfer to the WordPress.com Media Library so they will need to be re-inserted into your posts on a post-by-post basis. Sounds like a big job. The instructions linked to by @kokkieh http://www.travelpod.com/blog/2017/05/15/wordpress-import-intructions/ say:
For technical reasons, we are not able to import images to your WordPress blog from the XML file in the archive. You will need to insert them in your WordPress blog from the Images folder that is part of the archive.
There are many ways to do this, but the fastest way to get started is to upload all of the photos at once to your WordPress Media Library. Go to your blog and click on Media in the left hand column.
The photos from your blog are stored within the blog folder in your archive. You can simply drag and drop all of the photos into the Media Library page, and they will automatically start uploading to WordPress. Once there, you can use the WordPress blog post editor to place photos into your blog entries from the Media Library.And regarding videos, I’m not positive but I believe @kokkieh said elsewhere that you can upload video to your Media Library if you have the Personal plan upgrade (although the WordPress.com support instructions don’t actually say so). Even so, again it is not straightforward when you are dealing with merging two almost incompatable platforms. As your Travelpod instructions say:
TravelPod saves your videos as flv files, and this format is unfortunately not supported by WordPress.
You can use a third-party tool like Handbrake or Adobe Media Encoder to convert your flv files into a format accepted by WordPress, such as mp4.
Please note that you must pay for a Premium account on WordPress to upload videos to the Media Library. Video uploads are not supported in the Free or Personal plans. You can, however, embed videos from other sites such as YouTube. -
That’s what I feared, thanks themagicrobot. With over 3,000 images to be assigned to 86 blog entires with captions and stories and comments, I am not sure I’ll ever get anywhere, unless some automated mapping function exists that can grab all that data from my Travelpod archive files.
If anyone thinks that’s doable and has any suggestions, I’d hugely welcome them. [Else, I’ll need to get creative and might just set up a personal blog and link it to Travelark, which is an amazing project a former Travelpod member started to help replicate the TP experience.]
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I am attempting this on WP where I followed exact instructions given by TP (https://wordpress.com/settings/import/username.wordpress.com).
I asked for the link to your site. username.wordpress.com is the example URL the Travelpod doc provides, not the link to your site. But I’m glad to hear the WP-Admin option worked.
There is no automatic way to import Travelpod images, as explained in Travelpod’s own instructions. This is a limitation in the way your content was exported from their end, so nothing we can do about that.
And regarding videos, I’m not positive but I believe @kokkieh said elsewhere that you can upload video to your Media Library if you have the Personal plan upgrade
I doubt I’ve ever said that. Video uploads are only available to Premium and Business Plan users. This has always been the case – there hasn’t even been a test period where it was temporarily enabled for Personal Plan users. Our documentation, as well as Travelpod’s instructions, are accurate in this regard.
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@kokkieh. Apologies for the video mix-up.
@henniterness You’d be surprised how quickly you can upload images to WordPress.com posts via your own computer or from the Media Library. Start by inserting a few images for each post. I guess the biggest job will be sorting which image goes where depending on how you catalogued them.
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@kokkieh – I replaced my handle with ‘username’ just to show you where I am. In response to this question of yours: “On what site are you trying to import, please?” This being a WP forum, I thought that was obvious, so I must be mis-understanding your question.
It’s not the image upload I am struggling with now. That was easy (although not quick) and is done. It appears I’d have to manually map them to each blog entry, from everything I read. Versus there being a way to link them up with one of the files provided in the TP archive. Alas, that is utterly time prohibitive given I have over 3k images on 86 blog posts.
So I suspect my journey here is over and I’ll just stick to Travelark, which has done a rocking job at mimicking TP (although still being optimized). If anyone wants to donate to that project, it’ll be a relieve for all former TP users. http://www.travelark.org/
Thanks for everyone’s input!
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In response to this question of yours: “On what site are you trying to import, please?” This being a WP forum, I thought that was obvious, so I must be mis-understanding your question.
I don’t see what there is to misunderstand. You are asking for help with importing content to your WordPress.com site, but you have not once in this thread given the address for your WordPress.com site.
It appears I’d have to manually map them to each blog entry, from everything I read. Versus there being a way to link them up with one of the files provided in the TP archive.
Correct. The archive you were provided by Travelpod resides on your computer’s hard drive. There is no way we can automatically pull in images to your site from there. Usually images are pulled in during the import process from the server on which they are hosted along with the site you’re exporting from. But either Travelpod sites are already offline, or Travelpod does not offer a way to directly access images on their servers in this way so we can do this, so there is no way to automatically add the images to your posts.
Simply having them in your media library does not give us a way to do this either, as our system has no way of knowing which images should be in which posts. So as much as we’d like to help with this, we can’t.
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