How to import large blogs

  • Chris Rowley

    (@clubside)


    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Howdy!

    I’m trying to help someone move their Typepad blog to WordPress. I have set the environment to have 1 hour execution time and 1GB file uploads and it can’t handle even an 80MB file.

    So I got a file splitter. First I chopped an 18MB file into 1MB chunks. Fail. Then 512K. Fail. I’m down to the smallest my spliiter will handle, only 10 posts per file, and some of them are under 200K and come in fine, but some are larger, around 640K and those fail. Even without this issue this is not the largest blog which is 80MB which would split into hundreds of files that would take hours of drudgery.

    Are there no settings I can apply to PHP to get past this issue? I though setting 1 hour would be more than enough but I get timeouts after only 3 minutes.

    Really looking for help because my only other option is to hunker down and write my own node.js importer and I really don’t want to have to go through that.

    Please help!
    Chris

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  • Alexander S. Kunz

    (@antermoia)

    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi, I’ve been using “Local” as an in-between step, running on my own machine, and had no issue importing a 6 MB Typepad export file (3900 posts), and a 24.4 MB Typepad export file (5200 posts) in one go.

    Thread Starter Chris Rowley

    (@clubside)

    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks Alexander that’s what I ended up doing. Now for the pain of over 70,000 images that TypePad doesn’t give you and you have to re-link 🤪

    Alexander S. Kunz

    (@antermoia)

    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    Yeah, I’ve gone through that. I have adjusted the export file (stripping the <a href> tags around the images) before running the import, and there’s a somewhat quirky plugin “Smart Auto Upload Images” that can help with that—if Typepad isn’t flaky…

    Thread Starter Chris Rowley

    (@clubside)

    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    unfortunately that plugin doesn’t work because of Typepad’s use of CloudFlare on the images.

    Alexander S. Kunz

    (@antermoia)

    7 months, 3 weeks ago

    I think they might be blocking either server hosters and/or the “WordPress” user agent. There’s a plugin on Github that lets you change WordPress’s own user agent. I’ve set mine to the one of my desktop browser, and have had success (slowly) downloading ~5800 images from a Typepad blog.

    Quite the ordeal, these migrations from Typepad to the platform that they are recommending to move to… lol

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