Import your existing Blog to Jimdo

You can easily import the data (articles, comments, trackbacks) of your existing blog into Jimdo. You can even use your existing layout with the Template Api if you want.

The way it works - technical details

Our system imports a regular RSS 2.0 Feed (articles and comments). Or even better, a WordPress eXtended RSS (which is an extended version of RSS 2.0) that supports articles with details, trackbacks and comments with details. Wordpress did a great job defining a standard format for import-export data from a blog. That's why we decided to support exactly that format for import-export in our blog, too.

Quick tutorial

Export your blog from WordPress in the admin section at "manage" -> "export". You will get an xml file, which you can upload on your Jimdo-Page at "blog" -> "import". The import might take a while, you will get a logfile to see everything was imported correctly.

If you don't have a WordPress Export, try one of the following options:

1. Just import your RSS 2.0 Feed at "blog" -> "import". Note: Trackbacks will not be imported and the feed may not contain all your articles. If you don't have a RSS 2.0 compatible Feed, http://www.feedburner.com/ can help you.
2. You can try to import your blog into a WordPress blog and then export it into Jimdo. There are cool plugins and tutorials.

Notes

• <title> <link> <description> of the blog will be ignored. This are settings you can do at your website.
• At the moment jimdo only supports this format for a permalink: /yyyy/mm/dd/title. If your permalinks are set in this format, they will be correctly imported. Otherwise the permalinks will be changed to a correct permalink for jimdo.
• <description> and <content:encoded>. We use preferred the data form the <content:encoded> field. if <content:encoded> is not set <description> will be used.
• <wp:status>. publish or draft. default if not set: publish
• <dc:creator> and <author>. We use preferred the data form the <dc:creator> field. if <dc:creator> is not set <author> will be used.
• <guid> will be ignored. Only <link> is used.
• <wp:comment_status>. '''open''' = additional comments are allowed. '''closed''' = no additional comments are allowed. default if not set: open.
• <wp:comment_approved>. spam will not be imported. 1 = ok. 0 = awaiting approval. default if not set: 1

Importing Comments

1) Link to feed in RSS 2.0.
Our system will automatically grab the comments from this url. Please note: The following fields are not included in the RSS 2.0 format: email, url, ip, approved

<wfw:commentRss>http://mydomain.tld/yyyy/mm/dd/title-of-your-blog-entry/feed</wfw:commentRss>

2) put them directly in the <item> section like this (WordPress eXtended RSS). See notes how the fields are handled.

<wp:comment>

<wp:comment_author>Joe Doe</wp:comment_author>

<wp:comment_author_email>joe/@doe.com</wp:comment_author_email>

<wp:comment_author_url>http://www.jondoe.com/</wp:comment_author_url>

<wp:comment_author_IP>1.1.1.1</wp:comment_author_IP>

<wp:comment_date>2007-12-11 00:37:27</wp:comment_date>

<wp:comment_content>here is the comment. no html</wp:comment_content>

<wp:comment_approved>1</wp:comment_approved>

</wp:comment>

Features currently not supported

• <wp:post_type>attachment</wp:post_type> wordpress attachments are not imported at the moment.
• <wp:ping_status>open</wp:ping_status> and <wp:comment_type>pingback</wp:comment_type> trackbacks
• password protection of blog posts in wordpress will be ignored
• <wp:post_type>page</wp:post_type> Wordpress Pages will not be imported

Example files