Log in as the administrator and you’ll find it under Tools->Export.
Thank you, New Nine, but I am logged in as administrator and I don’t see any link that says ‘Tools’. Where do you see it?
I believe 2.7 is when export was implemented
So you either do a manual DB dumb from phpmyadmin, and maybe experiment with that
Or incrementally upgrade yuor old WP install to 2.7 to get the export
Thank you, Reverend. You know, I can’t seem to do an upgrade from my web host’s server’s WordPress utility (it requires me to select the version I am currently using from a pull-down menu, but the oldest version on that list is 2.3. Because I can’t select 2.0.2, it gives me a ‘cannot upgrade’ error message.) Is there another, more manual way to upgrade?
Ah, I’ve just found this.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress
Thanks again, Rev. Voodoo.
Yessir, it would be the best way for you
http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended
Just remember to back EVERYthing up…files and database
http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/
Here’s all WP versions for you.
Maybe you can upgrade to 2.3 and then use the upgrader on your host? Or do it all manually, I like manual upgrades…once you do a couple, they really do only take 5 minutes
My bad on the version. Like Rev says, if you can’t upgrade, you can always go directly to the database (through PHPMyAdmin) and export the tables. Then, install a new version of WordPress and import the tables through PHPMyAdmin.
Rev says “experiment” because there have been significant changes from 2.0.2 through today’s version (3.0.5 and counting). The tables you export may not match the exact structure of the new version. You probably don’t want to import all of the tables — maybe just the posts, taxonomies, and a select few others.
Because you’re making such a huge jump in versions, it won’t be a simple push-button upgrade.
Once you’ve got it working in a newer version, as Rev says, you can then export to XML.
(Alternatively, you can create a script to automatically generate the XML file from your database.)
Ha ha! Thanks, both of you. This is great help to me. Best regards!
