How to make a template/button?

#21

My apologies for the delay in responding. I have had a big week. Yesterday, I spent some time on my Tiddlywiki website and it’s coming together nicely. I do admit that it has been quite a learning curve for me, and some elements are quite out of my knowledge.

For now, I’m returning to my quest to find a quicker way of importing the posts from a Wordpress export. As requested, I attempted to attach an xml file with 3 book reviews, but received a message saying the file type is not authorised.

In total, I guess there are about 400 to 500 posts I wish to import into Tiddlywiki, the rest I will happily permanently dump. I did look into converting an xml file to json but the process is beyond me. It may be faster to copy and paste, in the long run.

For now, I will copy and paste a few and move on to creating a condensed version of my website to see if I can work out how to upload it via Github. Once I know I can do that, then I’ll seriously consider my options to moving my entire website over.

#22

you can rename it from abc.xml to abc.xml.json. … May be that works.

#23

You should be able to rename *.xml.txt before attaching

Do consider my offer

Or if your site is published give us a link or sample export files.

Otherwise we haven insufficient into to help.

You can just share with one individual too.

#24

OK, I’m going to try to upload the xml file as a csv file instead. No, it didn’t work. I also changed the extension to json, but was unsuccessful.

My website can be found at https://karenleefield.com

#25

I just had a quick look at the site and it should be trivial.

I will have a closer look tomorrow +10 hours. But I will message you privately.

#26

Thy this one: https://wormhole.app/ … It will create a link, where we can download the content.

#27

@pmario and @TW_Tones
I have uploaded an export from Wordpress for you to look at. There are 10 posts included from one category. The export is the standard export (not using a plugin) and looks a bothersome to me as it runs down the page, instead of across the page with titles.

Here’s the link: Wormhole link.

Apparently, the file will be deleted in 24 hours. I wasn’t able to lengthen the timeframe. Please let me know what you think. I do have files for other categories too, as I’m not interested in bringing all the posts over, just the relevant ones.

kind regards,
Karen

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#28

Hi, I did have short look. … But I do not see any fields like “The blurb” or the Rating elements in the export. … It seems to contain 11 articles. … Should they have this meta data?

#29

Thanks Karen,
TiddlyWiki could be given the capacity to handle XML Files however it does not currently. I am at for some XML tools that some one developed in the past but it would be more useful if it was in a CSV column format.

[Edited] I just found in my notes MS Excel reads XML so this is a way to generate a simpler csv from XML

#30

@pmario I’m sorry, it appears I’ve uploaded the wrong one. It’s the author interviews instead of the book reviews. The format is the same for both, but different categories etc.

@TW_Tones This is the standard export. I’ve installed several plugins and they are confusing. However, I did manage to get an xml that had the data in columns. I can’t get a CSV unless I pay for an upgrade, which I’m not willing to do.

Here’s the link to the right document: 3 Review Wormhole Link

I’m sorry for wasting your time. If this doesn’t work, I think I’ll just work out how to get a working website and copy and paste the data.

#31

But that is a CSV. IMO the XML version would be better. At least the first XML you sent was better. … The CSV contains a very “ugly” content, where every paragraph is covered in HTML comments, that are not visible and not useful. …

#32

Thiat last “csv” file looks good to me, it contains 4 reviews, although most of the information is stored in the “content” field.

  • I will most likely look at it tomorrow, +12 hours.

Be patient, I am sure we can help. Manual will take a lot of time.

  • We are close now.

Open this plugin and look at the contents;

Data_Posts-Export-reviews.json (17.0 KB)

It need a little more work to simplify and or extract more data but this could work as is.

#33

I took a look. It looked fine. The only thing that might be an issue is that the reviews appear to be shadow tiddlers. Was that intended? Or did I upload them incorrectly?

Actually, I don’t think they are shadow tiddlers, but they only show up when I click on them in the plugin. If I close the tiddler, I can only open it again by going back to the plugin.

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#34

They are shadow tiddlers and its common to use them that way. We can show you how. But as soon as you edit them they become regular tiddlers.

A long as you have the title you can open them.

Share a full export in a private message and I will concert the lot. Or give you the instructions.

#35

Thank you @TW_Tones

I have to get ready for work now, so I’ll organise the export this afternoon when I get home.

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#36

@TW_Tones
Sorry, I couldn’t work out how to send you a private message. I don’t think your settings allow it. I have uploaded the full export on wormhole. Thank you for attempting to help me. I do appreciate it.

#37

I have already downloaded the file, feel free to delete/edit your post if you want.

To send a private message, click on the user name, then message

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