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1. opticaljeff76
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Recently I had a disaster when trying to upgrade my version of WordPress. Although I restored my database backup and reinstalled my backup files, at this point in time I cannot log into my old WordPress site without receiving a long error message. But my question isn't about that.

   What I have done, since I was changing my url anyway, is rebuild my blog at a new url with the latest WordPress software. Since I could not log into my old site to create a custom WordPress XML file to export, I simply used the RSS link on my website to create an XML file which I could import. This restored the 10 most recent posts from my old site, but not all 90 or so. (Of course it didn't restore my comments, but that was a sacrifice I could make.)

   At this point, without the ability to log into my old site (although I can access the individual files through FTP, and can get into the SQL database), I am wondering if there is a good way to restore ALL of my old posts as an XML file. I have tried different RSS readers, but they all max out at 10--I assume WordPress set 10 as the limit for my site's RSS? (Only Google Reader pulls all of them, but does not seem to have a means of creating an XML file.) What's the easiest way to go about this?

   Obviously I am not too tech-savvy, but any advice would be helpful.

   Thanks

2. opticaljeff76
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   OK, so now I know that you can change the # of posts which appear in your RSS feed, if you actually can log into WordPress. But what if, like me, you can't? How can you change the # of posts in your feed from outside the WordPress dashboard?

3. whooami
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   phpmyadmin. its one of the options inside your options table.

4. gazam
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thank you for this answer! I was looking for a way to pull out all the posts for a map mashup. I couldn't find the answer anywhere. This will get me going until I can figure out how to make a separate feed for all posts rather than going into the phpmyadmin module.

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