Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?

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  benryanau · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 8:02 am

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  Hi,
  I missed the window for auto-migration of WLS into WordPress.
  Fortunately my content was not lost, Microsoft had a limited time where you could obtain your old content in a ZIP file (SPACE.ZIP). This ZIP contains a bunch of HTML files which won’t directly import into WordPress that I can see.

  Can you advise me on a method to import this content into my blog where it will maintain post dates, comments etc?
  If third-party utilities are necessary that’s fine.

  Thanks
  Ben

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 8:16 am

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  Please contact Support directly at http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ as they are the only ones who can assist you.

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  benryanau · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 8:21 am

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  Ok thanks. I’ll post a followup here based on the advice from support.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 8:26 am

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  That’d be great!

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 14, 2012 at 2:27 pm

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  So far the answer is that there is no way to import the contents of the ZIP file automatically. It has to be copied and pasted manually.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-import-the-zip-file-exported-from-spacelive?replies=4
  Still, I’d be interested to know if staff says otherwise.

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  benryanau · Member · Feb 10, 2012 at 8:26 am

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  Nobody replied from WP.
  The bottom line is, practically speaking – you can’t do it.

  I’m an IT professional (though not a coder) and exhausted all but one possibility – a set of blog migration tools that would have taken 2 hrs to install and configure.. and not likely to work anyhow.
  I spent ages exporting, importing, hand-editing XML – but nothing worked properly.

  Eventually I sat down and migrated the posts manually (sigh).. used Windows Live Writer rather than the WP web interface as it was quicker.

  A real bollocks from MS Live and WordPress, thanks guys.

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 10, 2012 at 12:57 pm

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  Consider yourself lucky that instead of deleting your blog for good as they said they would, Microsoft gave you a backup of your blog (although not in an “importable” way). :-)

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  benryanau · Member · Feb 10, 2012 at 3:02 pm

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  Heh yeah, true.
  Spose I shouldn’t complain there, though their communication was poor on the shutdown – I didn’t realise until it had happened. Must have been only one email notice (that I must have missed) cause I sure didn’t see anything about the shutdown prior to it happening.
  Ahh what can you expect for free eh? :)