LiveJournal Importer mishandles some <lj-cut> and <lj user=""> expressions

[designsimply]

There is a note on plugins.trac ticket 1231 that says this should be handled in core.trac instead, so I'm cross-posting it here. The patch and ticket were originally added by a-bishop:
​http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1231

Reproduction steps: 1. Create a LiveJournal? entry that has <lj user="foo" /> in it. Note that this is XML-ish 2. Try to use the livejournal-importer on this post.

Bug The <lj user="foo" /> gets ignored because the regular expression is too strict.

I've attached a patch that makes LiveJournal? Importer recognize the XML-ish version.

Patch:
​http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/1231/livejournal-importer.patch

[chriscct7]

Given that the LiveJournal plugin hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and there's a ton of other issues reported in the support/review area of the plugin listing on WordPress.org, if it will not be maintained further, perhaps the best course of action would be removing the item from the backend options, and noting the plugin is no longer maintained on WordPress.org

[callumbw95]

Hi all,

Continuing on from where @chriscct7 left off, this plugin has now not been maintained for almost a decade with the last update occuring back in October 2014. Hopefully this issue was solved then, but as this ticket is around a plugin that has not been actively worked on for this long I am going to attach the close tag.