Thanks for the great plugin. I had to recently modify the plugin i order to import a significant number of posts from a blogger import and didn’t notice the updates posted back in November.

Updates Made:

1. Fixed blogger import issues.
2. Ability to import images for different image extensions
3. Ability to specify the URL for images being imported.

Tested with Wordpress 2.9.

I posted information about the plugin on my blog: http://wordpressdevelopment.com/blog/plugins/blogger-image-import-reloaded/

Thanks for your time and pluguin. Best regards.

I am coming from a blogspot (blogger) blog. For those of you getting the error akin to this:

Posts Processed : 525
Images Imported : 0 (+ thumbnails)

The first problem I had was that my images were all html references to the image itself. To fix this, follow these instructions:

1.) Go to phpmyadmin and click on your wordpress database.
2.) MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATABASE

http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

3.) Click on the SQL tab, and type in this query (impt – syntax is different from above):

UPDATE `wp_posts` SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content,”s1600-h”,”s1600″);

After phpmyadmin processes your query, you should be able to see how many lines were affected. In my case, it was around 60.
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To fix the other problem (not running correctly), follow this step. Open ‘blogger-image-import.php’ and search for the line

$innerT = $urlchar.”blogger.com”.$urlchar.”\.jpg”;

Replace “blogger.com” with “blogspot.com”

— This worked for me, but I still have about 20 images with funky tags.

Hopefully you can update the main post with this?

The image path is the same but without the ‘-h’. For example the above image path would be htpp://1.bp.blogger.com/xxx/xxxx/xxxx/s1600/theImage.jpg.

To work around this problem, I modified the script to strip the ‘-h’ from the original image path. This way, the script will fetch the actual image and not the html file.

Here’s what I have

Add
$source_url = str_replace(’s1600-h’, ’s1600′, $source_url);

To the first function

function ko_blogger_image_import_upload_dir($source_url) {
$source_url = str_replace(’s1600-h’,’s1600′,$source_url);
$siteurl = get_settings(’siteurl’);
….

and here

function ko_blogger_image_import_download_file($source, $dest)
{
$source = str_replace(’s1600-h’,’s1600′,$source);
$ch = curl_init($source);
…

and here

/* array */ function ko_blogger_image_import_handle_download($source_url, $dest_name, $applychanges = true, $force_unique = false)
{
$source_url = str_replace(’s1600-h’,’s1600′,$source_url);
$file = array(’name’ => $dest_name);

However, make sure to not add the replacement within the wordpress loop after

foreach ($matches as $match)
{
$source_url = $match[2];
…

If you do, you will have the image downloaded, but the script will not update the image path in your blog.

Worked for me. Nevertheless, out of about 40 images, 5 did not copy over.
NOTE: I first did a backup of the database. In addition I made a duplicate database and in my wp-config.php, i set define(’DB_NAME’, ‘blog_db’); to define(’DB_NAME’, ‘blog_db2′);

This way I could test the script on the copied database. Once I confirmed all was good. I did a database switch – or you could keep the newly duplicated database.

When I run the plugin and import images, the images seem to be copied from blogspot into the wp-content directory. However, the files within the respective folders are not good. They don’t open as images.

Also, the posts get messed up in the process. For example, a post with 6 or 8 images will end up being truncated. Usually only a single image ends up in the post and whatever text was before or between images is removed.

So, for me, this plugin did not work. If you have suggestions or recommendations, I would very much appreciate them. Thanks.