LJ to WordPress

The community lj2wordpress is made for researching converting LiveJournals to WordPress blogs.

=Research List=

Importing LJ--with comments and security levels

 * Wordpress LJ Import
 * Importing LJ entries with threaded comments into WordPress

"Friending" and filters

 * Roles and Capabilities
 * Registered User Features

Authenticated Friends Page

 * RSS Auth Digest

OpenID integration

 * OpenID Comments for Wordpress
 * VerseLogic's OpenID Plugin

Image Management or Integration with gallery software or gallery plugins

 * WPG2
 * ImageManager 2.0

Integration with sound/video media

 * Podcasting
 * YouTube Video Gallery Plugin
 * Vlog plugin
 * FLV Video Player Plugin
 * WP Single MP3 Player Plugin
 * Fallen Media Filter -- Japanese?
 * Videopop
 * Audio Player WordPress Plugin
 * Extreme Video Plugin 2.0

Phone Posts

 * PhoneBlogz

SMS Posting

 * LetMeParty

Desktop posting/management clients

 * WordPress Desktop Client Search
 * Weblog Client

LJ-cuts and LJ user tags

 * Customizing the Read More -- no end
 * LJ Plugin Pack Including LJ Synch Available
 * Hide or Cut Post Text Plugin
 * LJ user -- replaces  with the correct html code

Icons

 * Post Avatar by garinungkadol
 * Gravatar -- globally recognized avatars
 * LJGravatar -- Gravatar plugin with LJ userpics integration

Polls

 * WP Polls
 * Democracy

Tags

 * A Tag System Based on WordPress Categories
 * WordPress Category Page Hacks
 * Ultimate Tag Warrior -- seems to be very popular

Spellchecking

 * Spell Checker Plugin for WordPress -- outdated, for 1.5

Crossposting to LJ

 * LiveJournal Crossposter
 * LivePress

RSS and Atom Feeds

 * Enabling Atom 1.0 for WordPress
 * Disabling RSS or Syndicated feeds -- if you don't want an RSS feed, you can disable it. You cannot do this on LiveJournal.

Threaded and/or paged comments

 * Brian's Threaded Comments
 * Dodo's Threaded Comments
 * Kevan's Paged Comments -- not sure if it with threaded comments
 * Paged Threaded Comments -- combines Brian's and Kevan's plugins
 * WP PageNavi

Comment management--screened?

 * Comment Moderation

Comment notifications

 * Subscribe to Comments -- can be used with Subscribe to Comments Report and Stats

Templates/Layouts

 * Theme Viewer
 * Thought Mechanics Themes
 * Themed Login and Registration Forms Plugin -- allows the login to be themed without messing with core code

Static page that can be used as a profile

 * Pages

Spam management
We often don't think about this since LJ takes care of it for us
 * Combating Comment Spam
 * Spam Karma
 * Bad Behavior

In-site search
I've seen this one requested a lot. Currently, LJSeek.com does any LJ searching, but it doesn't work for comments.


 * Search Everything

Current reading and music
Vox users get this stuff.


 * Now Reading

Statistics
LJ doesn't really give good statistics abilities, unless you're a Sponsored Community


 * WP-Slimstat

Backups
Use to backup your data! Very important! Backup regularly


 * WordPress Database Manager -- plugin for managing database backups; useful for people with limited database knowledge or access.
 * WordPress Backups -- guide to making backups