Now to the crux of this post. How did I manage migrating all the Posts and comments from JRoller to WordPress?<\/p>\n
It was not simple really; because JRoller does not provide any mechanism to backup blog posts, leave alone the comments. Therefore, I asked the Roller people and Dave Johnson<\/a> was kind enough to come to my rescue. He gave the plausible suggestion of creating a custom RSS Feed. The basic modus operandi is:<\/p>\n Now the last step is not that intricate because, guess what, WordPress 2.0 does provide the facility to import a blog<\/a> from a RSS feed. Yet the ordeal would be far from over, because while WordPress can import posts from your feed it cannot <\/em>import the post comments. Nothing against WordPress, the RSS 2.0<\/a> specification does allow a comments sub element<\/a> but that can only be a link to the actual comments page. So basically we need to defy them all, add the comments inline in our custom RSS Feed and then modify<\/em> the wordpress RSS Import Utility to decipher and import the comments as well.<\/p>\n When you are ready with your JRoller blog feed, just backup the existing RSS Importer file ( I hope this post helped you, do leave your comments here.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/strong> The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok I admit that I never made a formal announcement about it, but this blog has now moved to its new home at http:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com. If you are reading this, you are at the right URL. This blog used to be happily hosted at the excellent free service provided by the JRoller people. Roller is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,148,151,63,149,150,365,152,29],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-atom","tag-java","tag-on-the-web","tag-rss","tag-syndication","tag-syndication-and-feeds","tag-technology","tag-web-feed","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/rss_importer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
wp-admin\/import\/rss.php<\/code>) and place the modified importer PHP there. Rest is easy, only remember to break up your RSS file into smaller chunks if you have a really large blog, the importer has the tendency to timeout often.<\/p>\n![\"WP](\"http:\/\/nullpointer.debashish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/rss_importer.jpg\")
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