Wordpress nowadays is equipped with Import feature that lets you import posts from range of popular blogging sites such as Blogspot. Here, I’m providing some answers you may be seeking for.

As the title suggests, I will be focusing on Blogspot to Wordpress posts migration only.

Wordpress import feature just stops and does not seem to work

OK, you have done all the authorization at google, returned to your own Wordpress admin page, you see list of blogs you got from blogspot and some numbers showing how many posts or comments you got there for each blog as well. You press the magic button, import and nothing actually happen.

It is something that has to do with your hosting provider. Let’s cut the hassle of talking to your hosting.

Way of going around this problem is:-

Blogger to Wordpress at Wordpress.com

1. Get a account at Wordpress.com if you do not have one.
2. Do the same ritual process again. Manage -> Import -> Blogger -> Authorize -> Grant Access -> Import
3. If step 2 fails, just try again, it should go through.
4. If you managed to import from blogger to wordpress, we are now halfway to success already!

Wordpress at Wordpress.com to your own hosted Wordpress!

1. OK, go to manage -> export. Generate the XML file.
2. At your own hosted wordpress, go to manage -> import -> wordpress. Upload the file you got from step 1 and let it rolling!
3. You are done!

Note: The import feature at step 2 does have file size limitation constraint set by your hosting company. Typically, 2MB. If you find your XML file larger than that, read on.

Wordpress XML size overlimit.

One way is to increase the upload limit in php.ini but you won’t have access to that file at server side. If you do, read this.

If you don’t, read on.

1. Open up the XML file generated with your preferred text editor. Look for line start with the tag <item> and </item>. Each of the these set represent one blog post. <item> marks the start and </item> marks the end.
2. Remove as much sets as needed until you reach the desirable file size. Beware, do not remove any other kind of coding/data in there.
3. Import the file into your wordpress. Wordpress -> Manage -> Import -> Wordpress
4. Remember what you have removed just now!
5. Repeat step 1-2-3 again, you should be able to catch what’s happening here by now. This time, you will remove what you have included at the first upload, continue with what you have not uploaded. Repeat these steps as needed.

Appendix / Reference / Resources / Links:

http://wolfshowl.com/2008/07/12/xml-file-too-big-to-import/

http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Working_with_WordPress#WXR_filetoo_large_to_import.3F

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=4591

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/200104?replies=5

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/172108

http://www.techcounter.com/wordpress/import-blogger-beta-posts-to-wordpress/

http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/05/move-your-blogs-from-blogger-to.html

I have installed yet another plug-in into my Wordpress system few days back. As I’m loading more and more things into my current (active) theme, things may look messy and unorganized. Therefore, it’s important that I prepare some alternatives themes to satisfy your surfing experience. After all, serving you well here is one of our company’s (Hugo Lim Pte Ltd) commitments.

You can switch themes by choosing from the Theme Switcher placed somewhere at the bottom of the side bar! Alternatives themes that I created are kept plain and I don’t plan to modify them heavily to keep things simple. The brightness theme will stay as my main active theme for now. Enjoy!

Current available themes

Brightness theme

Glossy Blue

Corvette

Wordpress Classic

In case you are a Wordpress user and would love to try this plug-in out.
Link to the plug-in homepage

My Wordpress stats in my dashboard have gone idle not receiving hits for months. This has happened ever since I upgrade my wordpress to version 2.5 and above.

The solution is extremely easy. Just put

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

at somewhere in the end of your footer.php file. Just to make sure you get the picture right, you can put it just before the </body> tag.

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

Credit/ Reference: I got my head up here

I have added TinyMCE into comment box! With that, I have added a series of clickable emoticon as well! Try it out!

I found a great post on plugins related to the comment box here! Here, you can find lots of useful plugin in relation to the comment form.

Before ending this post, I would like to take this opportunity to wish Wendy a safe journey ahead to KL. She will be doing her 3 months intership over there. Take care and all the best to you my dear I mean it

Introducing another new feature added into my current Brightness theme! It’s not really a new feature but more like a enhanced tag cloud representation. By default, in this theme, we can only show the tag cloud on the sidebar in the widget selection.

I have custom made a new tag cloud, placed on top of the “Featured articles” which can be seen right after visitor points to the homepage. It also has fading and show/hide effect with a little help of javascript. Read the rest of this entry »

After changing my blog theme from wsCorvette to Brightness. I began to modify the theme heavily and now the look and feel of this website vary from its original desired perspective. Take a look at the author’s demo site to see how the actual theme looks like.

Bug spotted! or something that’s not properly done or probably the theme is not designed to provide such feature. The search result page is not properly rendered. If you try to search for something that return zero result, things will look like this:-

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tada~

My supervisor has gone MIA today so I spent most (almost all) of all working time on creating photo gallery based on flickr.

Click here to go to my photo album hosted using flickr Read the rest of this entry »

Goodbye boring old theme! Here come the new one!

I’m glad to announce my new theme for my blog today! This new theme has been modified (heavily) to serve what the old theme can if not more! Enjoy