I didn’t think I would get too far tonight on the task of converting my old blog entries to an importable form for WordPress, but it was time to start. I’ve been boring all dozen of you with my intentions for several months now, and the Radio Userland exipiration date is three weeks away. So, tonight, I decided to re-read the Radio Userland import instructions once more. Radio does keep nice archives, both in XML and in rendered HTML, for every post, but this sentence didn’t quite ring true for me.
The first thing to note is that Radio keeps per-monthly archive of postings in the backups/posts directory. I think this is enabled in the ‘Archives’ section of your Radio preferences.
At least on my Mac, the folder structure is Radio Userland > backups > weblogArchive > posts. The XML archives are not monthly and not in RSS format. Text manipulation isn’t my thing, so I’ll have to find another way to convert the existing XML to RSS, or get some help otherwise.
I should really set up a blog category so most of you can ignore this topic. Whenever it’s complete, I’ll make sure I update the instructions on the WordPress wiki with whatever tidbits I pick up along the way.