Leave it to Jeff Turner and Steve Zehngut of Zeek Interactive to come up with a cool plug-in for Wordpress, the ActiveRain post importer!
Thanks guys!
A few weeks ago, ActiveRain released a new feature that allowed members to export an archive of their individual blog posts. In the announcement, Brad said, "It's open nature will allow for the development of third-party import tools."
So, I sent the link to my partner, Steve Zehngut, and we put "create a Wordpress Plugin to import ActiveRain posts" on our to do list. Today we tested it and are ready to release it into the wild. You should be aware that the ActiveRain export does not include categories, tags or comments. So, our plugin imports the posts and gives them a category of "Active Rain" in your Wordpress blog. This will make them easy to find. If you're importing your posts into an existing blog, I would import them as draft. The video below will illustrate.
You can download the ActiveRain Importer here.
Let us know if you have any problems with it.
Jeff Turner aka respres
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Great post.
Thanks for putting this together
Ralph Gorgoglione
Los Angeles Real Estate
Laura, this is great! I like using WordPress to write blogs, so this will really make it slick to import them to ActiveRain.
Thanks sooo very much!
Laura: OK... so here I am... at 12:32 AM Friday morning... sitting here watching a WordPress video about plug-ins. What is wrong with me ? LOL.
nice. i will also check it out. thanks for the effort to improve the WP world. I have a number of sites set up that all use WP.
OK... so I sat here... for six minutes and fifty seconds... mostly shaking my head... and every once in awhile, when I see something that I understand... I kind of mumble "uh huh" or something similar.
I would think that when writing a tutorial post like this... one would consider who your audience might be. I guess that CAN be a problem... when you are trying to write for everyone... at all levels of techie ability. I am a non-techie... and, although I DO have a WordPress.com blog... I barely know what to do with it. I was hoping to learn some stuff here... but much if not most of this was kinda sorta over my head.
What do you suggest I do ? Where can I find some WordPress tutorials... well-written tutorials... that are on more of a beginner level ?
Also... would it be too much to ask... to perhaps make TWO versions of this tutorial ? One like the one above, which assumes the reader has some experience and knowledge, and a second one... written for someone closer to being a non-techie ? Thanks a bunch.
Laura: Since you gave us a tutorial... may I suggest one for you. First of all , did you know there was a WordPress Group on Active Rain ? Secondly, I see that you have not submitted this post to any Active Rain groups. I am guessing you are aware that you can submit each post to up to five AR groups... but if not, here is a tutorial post I wrote all about the AR Groups. Using the Active Rain "Groups" Feature . I hope you find it helpful.
Thanks Laura for the post and also Karen for your suggestions.
I was wondering how to do that. Now I will have to give it a go.
Thank you for sharing.
Hi Laura,
This is very helpful! Thank you for posting this!
Kristine McCreery
Virtual Real Estate Assistant
virtualcreator@hotmail.com
Over 17 years experience in the field
Laura, sometimes I always feel so far behind the power curve.
Getting a link from my blogs to my website, with some kind of search function, has long been one of my goals!
Just found this post. What a great tool and with the video demonstration this should make it easy to import to Wordpress.