{"id":7759,"date":"2013-06-30T02:17:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=7759"},"modified":"2013-06-29T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T00:33:30","slug":"my-xanga-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2013\/06\/30\/my-xanga-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"My Xanga Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently a friend despaired over Xanga shutting down. I incorrectly recalled a couple years ago they had a tool for migrating content to WordPress. (I probably confused it with Vox, LiveJournal, MovableType,\u00c2\u00a0Friendster’s blog, or Posterous who did have such a tool which I did use to migrate my content.) So I thought I had migrated my stuff.<\/p>\n

Instead back then I manually migrated the posts, including comments.<\/p>\n

Now Xanga has an archives generator (XML)<\/a> which is compatible with WordPress. That was much easier than post-by-post copying and pasting.<\/p>\n

But it also means 2001 to 2004 are duplicated. And I was terribly inconsistent about titling, merging posts, comments, and private\/public status.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, reading all those old those old posts is enlightening.<\/p>\n

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    1. I write too much about work.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Most of what I wrote could have been tweets as they were less than 140 characters. (Or nudged to be so.)<\/li>\n
    3. 10-12 years changes little. Same problems.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Recently a friend despaired over Xanga shutting down. I incorrectly recalled a couple years ago they had a tool for migrating content to WordPress. (I probably confused it with Vox, LiveJournal, MovableType,\u00c2\u00a0Friendster’s blog, or Posterous who did have such a tool which I did use to migrate my content.) So I thought I had migrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2021],"tags":[2607,2703],"class_list":["post-7759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-xanga","tag-posted-2013","tag-xanga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-219","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}