Importing images from wordpress.com

  • highspeeedchase

    (@highspeeedchase)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m having trouble importing images from my old posts from wordpress.com to my self hosted wordpress.org.

    I’m using the built in export/import plugin. The posts import fine and the images show up in the post but they are still hosted on wordpress.com. How can I transfer the images to be hosted on my new server?

    Unfortunately, I don’t have clearance to post the url for the blog here but I’m hoping that someone can help without seeing the site itself.

    A few notes:
    -Yes, I know that you can check a box to download and upload attachments. It doesn’t seem to transfer the images.
    -I’ve searched other posts and the ones that relate to this issue are closed without resolution. (If there is one that isn’t I’m happy to read through it.)

    Thank you!

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  • Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Do you have a lot of images? I’ve only done this a couple of times with blogger and WordPress.com and I’ve found that editing the image files manually is the only option.

    If you’re going to leave the wordPress.com site alone, I personally wouldn’t be too bothered.

    Thread Starter highspeeedchase

    (@highspeeedchase)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah, it’s a few years worth of posts, 300+ images. I’ve found that I can download the images with the tool below but now I just need to change the hosting url for all of the posts.

    http://bulkimagedownloader.com/

    I’m thinking that I might try a SQL query like this:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE (post_content, 'http://oldlink.com', 'http://newlink.com');

    Haven’t quite figured it out yet though. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!

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