how to get attached images from a wordpress import to be included ? #3049

netllama · 2022-10-08T20:49:05Z

netllama
Oct 8, 2022

Greetings!
I've got pelican-4.5.4 installed on a Fedora Linux system.

I've got several Wordpress blogs which have made heavy use of attached images in their posts (some of them are dedicated photography blogs where the entire post is literally just a single attached image with no other text). I'd like to import each of these blogs into Pelican such that the generated "output" for the posts automatically includes the attached image(s), but I'm not quite understanding how to make it work. I thought the --wp-attach option would make the magic happen:

pelican-import --wpfile --wp-attach ~/wp-export.xml

It did download all of the images (great), but the resulting generated HTML makes no reference to the images, and all of the posts are basically empty when viewed in a web browser. The help for the --wp-attach option says "Files will be added to posts as a list in the post header and links to the files within the post will be updated." but I don't think that's actually happening. I see all of the downloaded images sitting under the content directory (content/year6/wp-content/uploads/...) but none of them made it over to the output directory.

What am I missing here? What did I do wrong?

thanks!

avaris · 2022-10-17T16:27:04Z

avaris
Oct 17, 2022
Maintainer

Hard to know without further information. It may be the case that images are placed into the metadata only, if you have attached images but there is no reference to the image within the article (in the wordpress export). Is it possible to share a relevant article, i.e. the entry within the XML export and the resulting content (MD or RST) for that article?

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netllama · 2022-10-17T20:31:13Z

netllama
Oct 17, 2022
Author

Sure, here's the XML for the export of one article:

<item>
                <title><![CDATA[2015-12-15]]></title>
                <link>https://netllama.linux-sxs.org/year6/?p=1174</link>
                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[netllama]]></dc:creator>
                <guid isPermaLink="false">http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/year6/?p=1174</guid>
                <description></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded>
                <excerpt:encoded><![CDATA[]]></excerpt:encoded>
                <wp:post_id>1174</wp:post_id>
                <wp:post_date><![CDATA[2015-12-15 12:58:35]]></wp:post_date>
                <wp:post_date_gmt><![CDATA[2015-12-15 20:58:35]]></wp:post_date_gmt>
                <wp:post_modified><![CDATA[2016-01-03 12:59:11]]></wp:post_modified>
                <wp:post_modified_gmt><![CDATA[2016-01-03 20:59:11]]></wp:post_modified_gmt>
                <wp:comment_status><![CDATA[open]]></wp:comment_status>
                <wp:ping_status><![CDATA[closed]]></wp:ping_status>
                <wp:post_name><![CDATA[2015-12-15]]></wp:post_name>
                <wp:status><![CDATA[publish]]></wp:status>
                <wp:post_parent>0</wp:post_parent>
                <wp:menu_order>0</wp:menu_order>
                <wp:post_type><![CDATA[post]]></wp:post_type>
                <wp:post_password><![CDATA[]]></wp:post_password>
                <wp:is_sticky>0</wp:is_sticky>
                                                                                                                <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_wpt_status_message]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[Tweet sent successfully.]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_jd_wp_twitter]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[a:1:{i:0;s:47:"New Year6 post: 2015-12-15 http://goo.gl/ShztEr";}]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_wp_jd_target]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/year6/?p=1174]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_wpt_short_url]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[http://goo.gl/ShztEr]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_jd_tweet_this]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[yes]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_jd_twitter]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_thumbnail_id]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[948]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_edit_last]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[1]]></wp:meta_value>
                </wp:postmeta>
                                                        </item>

and the markdown that pelican generated for that same article:

Title: 2015-12-15
Date: 2015-12-15 12:58
Author: netllama
Slug: 2015-12-15
Status: published

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avaris Oct 17, 2022
Maintainer

Well, there is no content in that item, so no surprise it ended up empty. Also only (vague) reference to an image I can see is:

            <wp:postmeta>
                <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_thumbnail_id]]></wp:meta_key>
                <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[948]]></wp:meta_value>
            </wp:postmeta>

I guess 948 is referring to some image, hopefully also identified in the export XML. But currently pelican-import does not know how to handle this.

netllama · 2022-10-17T21:30:35Z

netllama
Oct 17, 2022
Author

Right, this was from a photography blog where the only content in a post was an image.

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 2:27 PM Deniz Turgut ***@***.***> wrote: Well, there is no content in that item, so no surprise it ended up empty. Also only (vague) reference to an image I can see is: <wp:postmeta> <wp:meta_key><![CDATA[_thumbnail_id]]></wp:meta_key> <wp:meta_value><![CDATA[948]]></wp:meta_value> </wp:postmeta> I guess 948 is referring to some image, hopefully also identified in the export XML. But currently pelican-import does not know how to handle this. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3049 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAARLSOQHYXTO76ETGP3AF3WDXADFANCNFSM6AAAAAARAMVSBA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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avaris Oct 17, 2022
Maintainer

Yeah, that's a different way of adding images and looks like pelican-import could use an update but that requires some example XML export: i.e. to identify which image 948 refers to and insert it into the content.

netllama · 2022-10-17T21:51:37Z

netllama
Oct 17, 2022
Author

I'm happy to provide the full XML export if that would be helpful? Its about 1.7MB in size.

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On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 2:50 PM Deniz Turgut ***@***.***> wrote: Yeah, that's a different way of adding images and looks like pelican-import could use an update but that requires some example XML export: i.e. to identify which image 948 refers to and insert it into the content. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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avaris Oct 18, 2022
Maintainer

Someone needs to implement it :). I can't promise I'll have any time working on it but sure if it is OK to share it, XML will be very helpful.

netllama · 2022-10-18T21:23:32Z

netllama
Oct 18, 2022
Author

year6.WordPress.2022-09-18.xml.gz

OK, I'm attaching a gzipped version of the full XML.

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avaris Oct 18, 2022
Maintainer

Thanks! I think I understand how this works. _thumbnail_id refers to the post_id of the item of type attachment. Need to associate items properly and possibly insert a link to the image in the content.

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