IMPORTING CONTENT FROM OTHER SYSTEMS - WordPress in Depth

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Transferring from (X)HTML

What you'll get: Posts

WordPress.com: No

WordPress Importer: Indirectly

If all else fails, you can try rebuilding your posts manually into RSS items, and importing as shown

above. The Codex entry shows the proper format for each post.

<item>

<category>Kites</category>

<category>Taiwan</category>

<title>Fun times</title>

<content:encoded><p>What great times we had...</p><p>And then

Bob...</p></content:encoded>

</item>

<item>...

Just be sure the <content:encoded> line is a single long line with no newlines embedded.

Collect all of your posts in a single file, with each post as an item.

There are two other ways to approach this problem:

• If you have well-formed (that is, tagged with standard W3C elements) HTML, the Import HTML

Pages plug-in may help.

• Nilayan Sharma of Technetra offers a method to convert HTML to WordPress using the Atom

Publishing Protocol, an alternative protocol to RSS: http://www.technetra.com/2009/02/24/

migrating-your-blogs-content-to-wordpress.