Both WordPress.com and WordPress.org offer an import script for LiveJournal users, and the process of importing from LiveJournal to WordPress is the same for each platform.
To export your blog content from LiveJournal, log in to your LiveJournal blog
and then type this URL in your browser’s address bar: www.livejournal.
com/export.bml.
LiveJournal lets you export the XML files one month at a time, so if you have
a blog with several months’ worth of posts, be prepared to be at this process
for a while. First, you have to export the entries one month at a time, and then
you have to import them into WordPress — yep, you guessed it — one month
at a time.
To speed the process a little, you can save all the exported XML LiveJournal
files in one text document by copying and pasting each month’s XML file into
one plain-text file (created in a text editor such as Notepad), thereby creating
one long XML file with all the posts from your LiveJournal blog. Then you can
save the file as an XML file to prepare it for import into your WordPress blog.
1. Click the LiveJournal link and install the plugin for installing from
LiveJournal.
Click the Activate Plugin & Install Importer link and the Import LiveJournal
page loads with instructions to import your file, as shown in Figure 7-3.
2. Click the Browse button.
A window opens, listing files on your computer.
3. Double-click the name of the XML file you saved earlier.
4. Click the Upload and Import button.
When the import script finishes, it reloads the page with a confirmation
message that the process is complete. Then WordPress runs the import
script and brings over all your posts from your LiveJournal blog.
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