Import WP.com blog to new host

  • manu595

    (@manu595)


    17 years, 5 months ago

    I have moved my WP.com blog to another host and am running WordPress 2.04. My current blog contains lots of stuff that I wanna keep in my new blog as well. So if I choose Manage –> Export and export everything as an XML file and import this file into my WP 2.04 blog using Import –> RSS, will everything work fine? Will all my links etc. work?

    If this will not work, then pl. suggest alternate method.

    I googled but found no info for this, though I did find lots of stuff on moving one WP 2.04 blog to another (http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/), which is of no use.

    Can someone help me out with this? I really do not want to loose my old blog and recreating each post manually in the new blog is quite painful.

    thanks.

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  • Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/

    Is EXACTLY what you want. Why did you decide it’s of no use?

    Thread Starter manu595

    (@manu595)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    thanks for the prompt reply. I did the following:

    1. Exported WP.com as WXR
    2. In my WP blog, went to Import and clicked WordPress
    3. Gave the path of the file generated in step 1
    4. Everything got imported just like you said.

    The only problem is that when I click the post titles, comments, or post category. I get errors similar to this:

    “Not Found
    The requested URL /blog/“/commentary/about-to-move/” was not found on this server.”

    any ideas?

    Chris_K

    (@handysolo)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    I’d wager you have Permalink issues. As it seems that your Permalinks are broke. Check that page for troubleshooting tips.

    In particular, confirm with your host that mod_rewrite and AllowOverride are both on and enabled.

    Easy test: Options -> Permalinks. Set to Default and save. Do those links start working?

    Thread Starter manu595

    (@manu595)

    17 years, 5 months ago

    Yup, they are working fine now. thanks for the awesome tip/

    A few days ago, I had optimized my Permalinks for SE optimisation as given in this article http://seo.blorc.com/seo/permalinks/. This is what was causing the problem.

    thnx again man.

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