WordPress Ideas » Topic: Direct WordPress-to-WordPress blog transfer with no XML downloading/uploading http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/direct-wordpress-to-wordpress-blog-transfer-with-no-xml-downloadinguploading WordPress Ideas » Topic: Direct WordPress-to-WordPress blog transfer with no XML downloading/uploading en-US Wed, 22 May 2013 18:22:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 hardy24 on "Direct WordPress-to-WordPress blog transfer with no XML downloading/uploading" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/direct-wordpress-to-wordpress-blog-transfer-with-no-xml-downloadinguploading#post-5644 Thu, 01 May 2008 15:00:17 +0000 hardy24 5644@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ There would then be nothing stopping someone stealing all your content very easily and setting up an identical blog and claiming it as there own content.

Having to use and .xml file atleast provides some barrier to this.

]]> JeremyVisser on "Direct WordPress-to-WordPress blog transfer with no XML downloading/uploading" http://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/direct-wordpress-to-wordpress-blog-transfer-with-no-xml-downloadinguploading#post-5633 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:16:14 +0000 JeremyVisser 5633@http://wordpress.org/ideas/ It's often a pain to migrate posts between WordPress blogs.

  1. Go to old WordPress blog
  2. Go to Manage > Export
  3. Spend forever waiting to download a .xml file
  4. Go to new WordPress blog
  5. Go to Manage > Import
  6. Upload .xml file
  7. Spend forever waiting for file to upload (which is about twice as slow as downloading, as most people have asymmetric DSL)

This could be improved.

Imagine if your WordPress blogs could directly communicate so you wouldn't even have to see a .xml file. You would navigate to your new WordPress blog, go to Manage > Import, click the WordPress option, enter your old blog URL, username, password, and click Go. You'd be done in no time, especially if this were done in the background.

What do you guys think?

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