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LiveJournal Importer

Import posts and comments from LiveJournal.

By briancolinger·Importer·Free
2(7 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 years ago
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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.

2/57 reviews
8.0K+active installs
581K+total downloads
16 yearssince 2010

Overview

Simple importer to bring your LiveJournal over to WordPress.

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

27 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Does not work with LJ itself, but works with other LJ-based sites
by asapegin·6 years ago

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).

  • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by asapegin.
Plugin cannot login to LJ
by neyz·8 years ago

Trying to start import, but plugin cannot login to my LJ, and does not import anything.

Comments are duplicating many times!
by engelsit·9 years ago

Import completed successfully on 20 posts. But comments are duplicated for 10 or more times. 🙁

stopped working
by Artfactor·11 years ago

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.

Glitchy but gets the job done
by Rachel·11 years ago

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.

Download Trends

Today: 58Yesterday: 76This week: 395Period total: 32K

Compatibility

WordPress3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.1.42
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v0.5
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

0.5

  • Fix order of translation functions loading so that translations can actually be rendered
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

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Plugin Info
Version
0.5
Last Updated
Oct 16, 2014
WP Requires
3.0+
Tested Up To
4.1.42
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
8.0K+
Downloads
581K+
Added
May 20, 2010
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Community

Tags

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Developer

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briancolinger
11 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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