Windows Live Spaces SPACE.ZIP import into WordPress?
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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
BenThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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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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. -
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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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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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? :)
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