Howdy,
Do your Posts / Pages show up in the back end?
Are you using the same theme you had on WordPress.com? (Not a requirement for it to work; I just want to know.)
Do the same Categories you had on WordPress.com site show in your new site?
I’ll see if I can help.
Paul
Howdy Paul!
By “back end”, I’m assuming you mean in the Dashboard? No, there are no posts, no categories, no menus… nothing. It’s the exact same screen/set up as when a new WordPress user starts a new blog from scratch.
I do, however, have a brand new theme installed. I fell in love with the theme and knew that I couldn’t use it on WordPress.com, so I have set up a .org site to use it. I have a fair amount of traffic and don’t have a way to direct readers to the old site while I work on the new, so the sooner I can get my old posts imported and visible, the better!
Thanks again Paul.
-Brittany
Actually, it looks like all my media is on the dashboard, but no posts, comments, links, etc. Any ideas?
Hmm, I know this sounds lame, but it is what I would do first.
Can you try the importer again? (Nothing to lose, really..)
And… how big is the file that you exported from the wordpress.com site?
If it’s not very big… you might want to open it in a text editor to see if anything is actually in it. It is possible the export itself is not right, and you’d need to export form wordpress.com again.
Let me know,
Paul
Hi Paul,
So I exported the .com content again, then I imported it all over again with the new export file. Once it finished importing, at the very bottom it said “All done, Have Fun!” and had a link on the Have Fun that activated it.
I don’t think that link existed prior to this last import, but I may have missed it.
Thanks very much for your help!
Brittany
