LiveJournal Importer

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 8K.

1. ★★★★★ asapegin

   7.5y ago

   Unfortunately, the plugin does not seem to work with LJ itself anymore. However, it is easy to modify it, so that it works with other LJ-based web sites, such as dreamwidth. In turn, dreamwidth supports fully functioning import from LJ. I have modified the plugin to support thrid-party LJ-based sites, and you can use it to import from, for example, dreamwidth. Since I haven’t understood, how to commit my changes here, I have made a modified plugin available on my github. Please google for “github asapegin livejournal-importer” (links are not allowed in the reviews). This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by asapegin.

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2. ★★★★★ neyz

   9.4y ago

   Trying to start import, but plugin cannot login to my LJ, and does not import anything.

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3. ★★★★★ engelsit

   10.6y ago

   Import completed successfully on 20 posts. But comments are duplicated for 10 or more times. 🙁

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4. ★★★★★ Artfactor

   12.0y ago

   Pls, help us. Our impots suddenly stopped working. We did’t change any in the site(http://www.a-len.ru). But import freeze on beginning with message ‘Post metadata has been downloaded, proceeding with posts…’. No any errors, no any warnings. What could be the problem? Ths for answer.

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5. ★★★★★ Rachel

   12.5y ago

   The other reviewers are correct; comments are doubled (x6 for me) for every post and I only have 117 of them, not hundreds like the others. It’s a pain in the butt, but at least all of my entries are in one spot. If you don’t care about that sort of thing, this is for you. If you’re more organized and don’t want 30+ comments on one post when there’s technically only 7, try to find another solution.

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6. ★★★★★ franklinveaux

   13.6y ago

   Unless you are importing only a very small number of posts (less than a couple hundred), this plugin is essentially useless. The plugin imports posts fine, but hopelessly scrambles comments. Some comments are duplicated; others are attached to the wrong post. On my own blog (1500 posts and 23000 comments), about 1,100 comments were attached to the wrong post and about half the comments were duplicated, some as many as 40 times.

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7. ★★★★★ xaminmo

   13.9y ago

   In summary, other LJ export/import tools work fine, but this one does not. This one also does not take input from other tools that do work. In other words, this plugin is useless if you have more than 200-300 posts in LJ. In detail, this plugin constantly bans itself within seconds. It’s impossible to download an LJ with more than just a few entries. * Developers whine “Talk to LJ, it’s not our fault”. * I can download my whole journal using ljArchive in about 2 minutes. I can export to an XML file with comments, moods, etc. * This plugin doesn’t support importing an LJ from XML. * The old plugins are only buried in old downloads, but they require re-coding to support current WP. Basically, this is too low of a priority to get development effort, but that doesn’t make this a good plugin. It’s just the reason why this is a bad plugin. Also, it’s the reason why there is no functioning LJ import into WP for larger journals.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 0.5 Fix order of translation functions loading so that translations can actually be rendered 0.5
2. — Version 0.4 Fix AJAX handler to use the global and have the class defined and instantiated Slow the auto-refreshes down Handle the case where the last batch of comments are all deleted ones so we don’t loop forever 0.4
3. — Version 0.3 Moved the AJAX Handler out of core and into the plugin Added support for using WP_HTTP transports for the API request in WP 3.1 Fixed the ajax messages to actually display the elipsis 0.3
4. — Version 0.2 Updates 0.2
5. — Version 0.1 Initial release 0.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 83 languages, 32 at 90% or more

Plus 59 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-22 8K+ → 7K+ down after 152 days in tier
2. 2026-03-23 9K+ → 8K+ down after 271 days in tier
3. 2025-06-25 10K+ → 9K+ down after 2701 days in tier
4. 2018-02-01 9K+ → 10K+ up after 186 days in tier
5. 2017-07-30 6K+ → 9K+ up after 221 days in tier
6. 2016-12-21 5K+ → 6K+ up after 81 days in tier
7. 2016-10-01 4K+ → 5K+ up

Competes with

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LiveJournal Importer: 7K+ active installs, 2.0★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/livejournal-importer