Today I decided that I would import my LiveJournal posts. This process started off with manually exporting each month which contained a post. Taking breaks every 30-40 minutes this took me about 3 hours. The next part of my monumental task of importing took the longest thus far. A reason it took so long though was due to the pinging process happening for each post after it was imported. Once realized and turned off after completing about half of the data set, it only took me another 45 minutes importing each month. Holy crap is it a manual task to get information out of LiveJournal and into something else like Wordpress.
I imported roughly 700+ posts, and now have begun the task of categorization, tagging, spell checking, and filtering. Even if I attempt to break up the task into about 100 posts/day, I expect this to take the longest as there isn’t any quality plugins for mass post property editing in Wordpress. I don’t think it imported any of the comments, which is unfortunate, but fine as I rarely ever received comments.
It’s interesting reading and going over stuff that happened to me so many years ago. The earliest bit of information I now have is from July 2002.
Here is my tip to give to the community. One key thing to remember is the more plugins you have activated in your Wordpress installation the slower it will function. Before attempting such a task yourself, disable all unnecessary plugins you have. This will save a tremendous amount of load time off each page/edit/task you attempt.
