Wordpress import didn't grab the comments

drmike · Post by **drmike** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:21 pm

Greets:

I've just recently imported my old WordPress blog into Serendipity and am currently having a pair of issues.

1) I did the import via Administration Suite -> Import Data -> WordPress and entered the data. The strange thing was that I gave the correct database information as the WordPress install is in a seperate database, the imported kept looking for the wordpress database tables within the database Serendipity sits in and not the wp one.

2) My comments did not come over. I moved over to db tables and reran the script. All the posts and categories came over but not much else. All I got on the import page was the "Import is beginning...." line.

Suggestions?

Thanks,
-drmike

drmike · Post by **drmike** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:36 pm

It appears that the process is getting caught up during the import into serendipity_entrycat as only 5474 entries are coming over out of 8847 with my wordpress blog.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:20 am

Hi!

Exactly that can be the case. If you don't see the message "Import finished" then your importer is stalling before it finishes, and comments are imported at the end.

Sadly, when importing a large blog, serendipity can't really import it in multiple steps, because it needs a large list of references. The question is if the memory-limit or the time-limit is killing your import process. Do you have access to the server's or PHP's error logs?

Regards,
Garvin