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1. debs621
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I host a personal website, which includes a blog. My husband and I write the site (he codes far more than I do, but even he's a novice). He set up a sql database for my blog and we host it on our own webspace, which we pay for. What I'm saying is: we don't have a livejournal, blogger, vox, etc, etc account.

   I'm currently in the process of designing my own theme and wanting to relaunch my personal site in wordpress, but I have no idea how to go about backing up my current database and installing it in wordpress, since it doesn't currently fit a standard format of the major blog sites.

   Are there any solutions for a case like this? What information do you need to help me?

2. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Is this a home grown blog code? How many posts are we talking about? You may be best served by manually copying the content over to your new wordpress blog.

3. debs621
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yep, home grown. We're talking 500 entries, which is annoying to manually re-enter, but not undoable. Are we talking just starting a bunch of new posts and posting that way?

4. artbaron
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You do this automatically if you get those entries into a spreadsheet and use a plugin like CSV Importer or the built-in WordPress import function.

   There are lots of ways to import content into WordPress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

5. Ipstenu
   Half-Elf Support Rogue & Mod
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeah, the problem is going to be exporting the home-grown into something importable, I think :(

   If you have RSS or xhtml, it may be a lot easier, but ... This is bound to be annoying at some level.

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