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1. caldoverde
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm trying to help a friend move and update his self-hosted blog. It's presently with Yahoo, and despite being set up to (apparently) automatically update the WP software, it never has, so he's running 2.0.2 which was before any export capability was introduced.

   Does anyone know a way I can get the blog into an xml file? Or some other way of porting the content across short of copying and pasting every post? I've tried Aaron Brazell's WordPress-to-Wordpress import, but it's for 2.1+ and doesn't recognise the content as a valid format.

2. figaro
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I would just upgrade incrementally, first and then when you are at the current release and it's working, move it. You can get the older versions here:

   http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

   I'd suggest going to 2.3.3, then to 2.6.5, then 2.7.1, then to the current version.

3. ryans149
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   yes, figaro is correct. You can export the database, but there are so many changes from the 2.0.2 to 2.8, so there is a large possibility of getting errors.

4. caldoverde
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for that suggestion. Sounds very sensible.

   How do I upgrade this version? There doesn't seem to be any facility within the WP software. All my WP experience is with much later versions.

5. ryans149
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   you need to manually upgrade. download the versions from here:

   http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/

   and
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

6. caldoverde
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks.

   Sigh ... looks almost as long-winded as transferring the posts one by one ...

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