Comments on: Import HTML Pages

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:24:15 +0000

What I meant to say is:
Hi Stephanie,
Super great tool. Thanks so much! Quick question â�� even though i include the BR tag in the Allowed HTML field, still I canâ��t get the tool to keep my BRs. Iâ��m using Version 1.21. Thanks for any pointers!
David

By: David

David — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:22:49 +0000

Hi Stephanie,
Super great tool. Thanks so much! Quick question – even though i include in the Allowed HTML field, still I can’t get the tool to keep my BRs. I’m using Version 1.21. Thanks for any pointers!
David

By: lopo

lopo — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:10:50 +0000

hi
nice plugin
but i have this problem:

i have one html page in this page i have some article.

the plugin workin fine for the first article but the other are ignore.

eseple

article1
content

article2
content

article3
content

some one can help me
thanks advanced

By: RHCdG

RHCdG — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:25:10 +0000

Hi Stephanie,

I just emailed you a screenshot; thanks again for your help!

Rutger

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:27:55 +0000

No, you just need it once. In your case, it would look like:

.,..,audio,pdf,pics

Can you email me a screenshot of your import settings?

By: RHCdG

RHCdG — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:52:17 +0000

Hi Stephanie,

Do you mean I should put .,.. before each directory name in the box under “Skip directories with these names”?

Like so:

.,..audio, .,..pdf, .,..pics

I tried this, and the import was different than before but I got scared when it started displaying “cgi-bin” hundreds of times during the import… I hit the Stop-button on my browser, and I now have 820 “planned”, i.e. empty pages.

I know from others in this thread that your tool works miracles, but how I wish I would get it to work for my site!

Thanks,

Rutger

PS I did upgrade to the new version of the plugin!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:27:18 +0000

Hey, Rutger. I’m sorry, I don’t seem to have received your email. However, I think I know what the problem is. Did you by any chance erase the preset options for directories to skip? If so, but this back in:

.,..

(Period, comma, two periods.) I think I need to hardcode that into the plugin; otherwise, if you take it out and you’re on a UNIX-based OS, the importer will trip over all the hidden system files.

Try that out and let me know how it goes!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:24:59 +0000

Thanks, Chris, that would be great! I was just thinking earlier today that I need to create some more flexible options for dates and bylines, but it’ll be about two months before I can devote the time.

By: Chris Berendes

Chris Berendes — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:21:49 +0000

Stephanie – Thank you for this fabulous tool. I’m using it to import 100s of pages from an old Radio Userland site into a Wordpress blog. This presented a few new problems: multiple posts on the same date are stored on a single html page, and the post date has to be retrieved either from the url or a bolded item in the page.

I was able to modify your code to handle this, pulling out the code that handles each new page onto its own, and from there extracting the “identify the post and insert it” code into a second new function, which I then installed into a loop. Happy to send it for your review/inclusion if you like. It’s more or less clean.

By: RHCdG

RHCdG — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:18:21 +0000

Hi Stephanie,

I appreciate the time you’re putting to help everybody out, including me. I did, however, send you a sample html-file through the email form on your website; perhaps you did not receive it? Or maybe it did not give you all the information you need? Are there any other settings you need to know to fix this problem? Perhaps it would be useful if you could list the exact details or settings you need to solve this
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problem?

Thanks,
Rutger