Import posts and comments from LiveJournal.
As of April 2026, LiveJournal Importer is a WordPress importer plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 2/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 581K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: WordPress Importer.
Simple importer to bring your LiveJournal over to WordPress.
Unfortunately, the plugin does not seem to work with LJ itself anymore. However, it is easy to modify it, so that it works with other LJ-based web sites, such as dreamwidth. In turn, dreamwidth supports fully functioning import from LJ. I have modified the plugin to support thrid-party LJ-based sites, and you can use it to import from, for example, dreamwidth. Since I haven’t understood, how to commit my changes here, I have made a modified plugin available on my github. Please google for “github asapegin livejournal-importer” (links are not allowed in the reviews).
Trying to start import, but plugin cannot login to my LJ, and does not import anything.
Import completed successfully on 20 posts. But comments are duplicated for 10 or more times. 🙁
Pls, help us. Our impots suddenly stopped working. We did’t change any in the site(http://www.a-len.ru). But import freeze on beginning with message ‘Post metadata has been downloaded, proceeding with posts…’. No any errors, no any warnings. What could be the problem? Ths for answer.
The other reviewers are correct; comments are doubled (x6 for me) for every post and I only have 117 of them, not hundreds like the others. It’s a pain in the butt, but at least all of my entries are in one spot.
If you don’t care about that sort of thing, this is for you. If you’re more organized and don’t want 30+ comments on one post when there’s technically only 7, try to find another solution.
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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