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[resolved] How do I save an RSS Feed for importing? (6 posts)

  1. TinaHunter
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Ok this might sound dumb or basic,

    but how do you save the rss feed from your site so you can import it into wordpress (self hosted)?

    I use a blogging system that is not listed in the codex and so I have to use my rss feed... but all it's says is "save your rss feed".

    How do I do that?

    Here is my rss feed from my site (yet to be transfered) http://www.tinahunter.ca/home.rss

    What do I do?

  2. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Do you want to display this feed? If so, the RSS widget might be what you're looking for.

  3. TinaHunter
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    No I would like to import this blog.

    According to the Codex I need to save this feed (somehow) and import it into wordpress.

    I just need to figure out the somehow part.

    Please help.

  4. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Point your browser to the current feed's URL.

    View Source.

    Copy and paste entire contents to a text file.

    Import.

  5. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Navigate to your RSS feed url and then view the page source. Copy the entire page, paste into a text editor and then save it for importing into WordPress. Never tried an RSS import myself. Let us know how it goes.

  6. TinaHunter
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

    It works.

    With the default RSS feed (like the one I posted above) it only shows the last few posts not all and I didn't know how to change that.

    So I went to Feedburner, changed the # of posts to be displayed in the RSS feed to all, clicked on the XML feed link under Optimize, and copied the code into Notepad (.txt extension).

    It uploaded great. No pictures, tags or categories, but the dates and text and even links are there.

    Thanks so much for your help @esmi and @Chris_K.

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