There have been several posts regarding this. At this point, there isn’t an option to easily import wp.com blogs so you get comments, cats, etc.
You can import via RSS for the posts however:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Importing_from_an_RSS_feed
How do I save RSS feeds onto my desktop ?
once you’re viewing the xml in your browser, use your browser’s File -> Save As… menu.
It seems kind of ironic that WordPress has import tools for everyone but themselves. 😉
From what I read at the wp.com forums, something’s being worked on to allow export of their blogs.
It took me forever (and a few false starts) to get my free WP blog (http://ptvguy.wordpress.com/) transferred to my new domain. (http://www.ptvguy.com/) Transferring posts, pages, and even sidebar widgets was all pretty straightforward, but getting comments transferred with all their original info was a pain in the posterior region.
I had to go back and manually reset timestamps and IP addresses for each comment in the database itself. Now, the only thing that I’ve lost is the User Agent information for each commenter. That’s going to throw my stat percentages off for a while (to favor Firefox) but it’s the one piece of info that I couldn’t access from the free account.
Anyway, now I’m happily self-hosted with all my original stuff intact. You know, I’m really becoming more and more of a WordPress fan and advocate.
I’m trying to import my wordpress.com blog via RSS (as it seems according to this thread that’s the only way to do it). I’m getting this error:
“Unable to create directory /home/jennhx/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2006/05. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
I’ve tried changing permissions but it doesn’t help. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
P.S. I’m a newbie so any references you can send me to would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
I found that if you change the permissions for uploads from 755 to 777, I was able to import. That’s a little scary because the directory is now wide open to the public. I’m going to reset the permissions again after import.
What I don’t like is that I can see my comments in the XML from the RSS export, but they are not imported. There has to be a way to get the commnets in through automation.
