Okay. I haven't been eager to dive in because I know literally nothing about perl. But I found the needed dependencies (via Debian, which was easier than trying to do it in MacOS lol) and it ran to completion and after running again specifying XML (vs. default which I guess means raw which gave me some chonky binary file) I got a 60MB file which on casual inspection seems like it's probably complete.
Which tells me mostly I think that the database on your end is fine as far as your own tools are concerned (which isn't really surprising, I mean, of course it is).
Sadly, from what I've been able to find, there are not tools to import Dreamwidth XML exports to Wordpress - I'm not the first person to try this, I'm just the first person who hasn't bailed and copied everything over by hand. (At least, that's what I was finding in searches before I started trying to adapt the Livejournal importer to Dreamwidth.) As far as I've been able to find, few people have tried to make this work and so far none have succeeded.
I wonder if there's something different in Wordpress's PHP implementation of the XMLRPC libraries? But now I'm just in "whelp I dunno" territory and am guessing.
Re: well howdy
Which tells me mostly I think that the database on your end is fine as far as your own tools are concerned (which isn't really surprising, I mean, of course it is).
Sadly, from what I've been able to find, there are not tools to import Dreamwidth XML exports to Wordpress - I'm not the first person to try this, I'm just the first person who hasn't bailed and copied everything over by hand. (At least, that's what I was finding in searches before I started trying to adapt the Livejournal importer to Dreamwidth.) As far as I've been able to find, few people have tried to make this work and so far none have succeeded.
I wonder if there's something different in Wordpress's PHP implementation of the XMLRPC libraries? But now I'm just in "whelp I dunno" territory and am guessing.