Import Your ActiveRain Posts To Your WordPress Blog
May 28th, 2010 - Jeff Turner
A few weeks ago, ActiveRain released a feature that allowed it’s members to “archive” their ActiveRain blog posts. Utilizing that file, however was not a simple task, so we’ve created a WordPress Plugin to make the process simpler.
Click here to download the plugin immediately.
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This video will walk you through the process of exporting your ActiveRain XML file and importing it into your WordPress blog. This is for self-hosted wordpress blogs only.
Tags: activerain, export, import, plugin, wordpress
Greetings!!!
I downloaded, unzipped this plugin and when trying to activate it in WordPress I receive the following message …
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/…/wordpress-2.7/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import/activerain-import.php on line 205
Any thoughts?
I just tested it on WP 2.7 and it seemed to work fine. What version of php are you running?
I don’t know the answer to PHP version … I could probably figure it out, but, I’m running WP 2.7 on a hosted server at Verio.com. I haven’t had problems with other plugins, but, I’m only running a few. Thoughts?
PHP Version 5.2.9 … any further thoughts???
Aha!!! A break thru …
On the last <? in the function select_authors() … the code should be <?php (instead of just a naked "<?") to work with PHP Version 5.2.9 as it's installed on my machine.
I don't think this had anything to do with wp … now plug-in was activated without an error … on to trying to import my AR blog!!!
Ah. Line 99?
Ok … so I can activate the plug-in … I can go up load a file (verified that it did upload browsing my server) and then I get the select authors form, and the nothing … just stops and does nothing. Thoughts?
OK … FIXED !!!
Talked to VERIO.COM who runs my servers … they helped me diagnose that I didn’t have the SIMPLE XML PHP extensions loaded on my Virtual Private Server. Once loaded, bing bang boom … now maybe I should have know that they weren’t loaded, but, I didn’t.
In the meantime, I added a lot of error handling code to the plug-in. So, later, I’ll rip it all out and skinny this back down. I do know that the “<?" error above needed to be fixed one way or the other.
Otherwise, I was able to import all my AR positing onto my website's blog. THANKS!!!
I have been looking for this plugin for months. Thank you so much! Hopefully I can get it up and running with no problems
Thanks for the Active Rain plug in. I’ve uploaded it to my WP blog. I’ve gone something wrong as only 42 posts actually pull to the site.
Second question — will all subsequent posts pull to my WP site?
thanks
Without seeing the xml file you uploaded there’s no way to know why it pulled the posts it pulled. And unfortunately, it will NOT pull in subsequent posts. AR does not give that kind of access.
Susan,
You could use http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/ and the RSS feed generated by your Active Rain blog, to pull in subsequent posts.
Do you have a step by step guide that can be printed vs. following along on a video?
Unfortunately we do not.
Downloaded PHP file and attempted to upload plugin into WP site. Got following error message:
Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
Any help?
Hey Jeff-
I just tried to use this and got the same error that DJ got – https://skitch.com/drewmeyers/rd18w/upload-plugin-spencer-rascoff-wordpress
We’re going to take a look. It would be nice if ActiveRain would simply fix their code and export a WP compliant file.
Here is the latest error message:
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: /xxxx/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/blog_entries.xml_.gz.txt:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found in /xxxx/xxxxx/public_html/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import.php on line 119
Can you please send your xml file to me? steve@zeek.com
Working on a client, saw this plugin and got excited, got these warnings:
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: /home/content/88/7481588/html/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/blog_entries.xml_.gz.txt:1: parser error : Start tag expected, ‘<' not found in /home/content/88/7481588/html/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import/activerain-import.php on line 119
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: � in /home/content/88/7481588/html/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import/activerain-import.php on line 119
Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ^ in /home/content/88/7481588/html/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import/activerain-import.php on line 119
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/88/7481588/html/wp-content/plugins/activerain-import/activerain-import.php on line 121
Should I just go the RSS route or wait for an update?
I get the same error as Hector above.
Can you please send your xml file to steve@zeek.com ?
What version of php is your server running? The plugin requires php 5 or better.
it should be 5 – it is brandy new, but I honestly can’t see where the version # is. I looked at the PHP config. I also looked for the simpleXML php estension listed above, but don’t see it as one of the available extensions.
Where are you hosting?
I see lots of other available xml extension, but have no idea if any or which ones would help.
Hi Jeff and Steve,
thanks for making this plug-in available. I have not tried it yet and wonder if it does anything differently than say the feedwordpress plug-in. Let me know when you build a plug-in that pushes wordpress posts from real estate web sites into active rain.
Thanks
Pike Porter