Import from WordPress
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Just curious to see if being able to bulk import posts from a WordPress blog into Day One is on the roadmap and if there’s a timeline for the feature? (trying to avoid having to write something to hand crank the entries). Thanks for any updates.
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Hello! Bulk imports from WordPress are not currently on the roadmap, but we’d be happy to submit your requests for this feature!
While we are not able to provide detailed information at the point of time of any new release, I invite you to check the following for future feature announcements.
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/day-one-journal/id1044867788?mt=8 andhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/day-one/id1055511498?mt=12 pages
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Bulk imports from WordPress are not currently on the roadmap
Since when?
The official announcement from WordPress claimed directly that it was:
importing your favorite content from WordPress.com and Tumblr into Day One is on the near-term roadmap.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2021/06/14/day-one-the-journaling-app-joins-automattic/And seemingly the CEO even promised as much:
Is there any way yet to import into Day One from a WordPress blog?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-way-yet-to-import-into-Day-One-from-a-WordPress-blog/answer/Paul-Mayne
Paul Mayne
Founder & CEO of Day One8y
We are working towards a native automated solution, but in the meantime here’s a script to import a WordPress Export into Day One…As someone who spent years journaling on WordPress, this inability to move my WP journal to DayOne is the only thing keeping me from becoming a paid DayOne customer.
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@nordbergsam Ah yes! You are correct. My apologies. I know there have been discussions about this, but the import options are not currently being worked on. I cannot offer an ETA at this point.
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I’m doubting this will ever occur. Not only have they apparently removed it from their plans, but even the promised Tumblr backend migration to WordPress has been cancelled. It looks like Tumblr, DayOne, and WordPress are all going to stay completely separate services with no overlap or cross-import/export.
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@paradewithanm and @nordbergsam, there’s no word on this yet. In the meantime, if you’re on a Mac, you can try using this script to import WordPress entries into your Day One journal: https://github.com/kitykity/dowp
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Actually, with the powerful DayOne import options, it wouldn’t be too difficult to export your WordPress XML backup, run it through a text editor to take out the useless tags and improve formatting, and just import that way. But for me, those WP blogs I used as journals also contain a lot of images that I would want imported too. I dealt with this once on WP.com where I just batch uploaded all of the images to a certain WP site, then rewrote all the links to the images in the XML file (which really just involved replacing the subdomain and then regexing all the date portions of the URL into that one new date structure). As I’m not a DayOne user right now, I wonder if such a method would be possible there.
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@nordbergsam We don’t have an official way to parse WordPress exports, and import images from the WordPress site.
A script like https://github.com/kitykity/dowp crawls through your site and manually save the content. However it only supports texts at the moment, from the project notes.
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