Importing haloscan comment to wordpress

Posted at September 2, 2008

One of my client using blogspot and she want to move to self hosting wordpress. She already use domain mapping so the main problem is blog engine :-)

Moving process itself went smooth, in general the process involved are :

  1. Set subdomain for temporary name in her hosting account.
  2. Install wordpress
  3. Migrating her blogspot blog to wordpress
  4. Move picture stored in blogspot to her wordpress blog
  5. Update permalink
  6. Change domain pointing dns to main domain

The main problem that take some time is haloscan comment.

She use basic account and refuse to upgrade to premium account just for getting xml export.

After some time I finally found solution for export haloscan comment .

After get xml backup ( her haloscan comment around 500 comment ) I must get post associated with blogger post id. To do that things I use wp-get-blogger-post-id wp plugin from Justin blog.

Since the xml structure a bit different from ‘real’ exported xml file from haloscan I make little php script import the post into wordpress table account.

Lucky, I found php script that help me to cope with such situation.

You can download it here.

Last action need to take is delete blogspot blog to prevent duplicate content issue :-)

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