Title: Problem importing RSS
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem importing RSS

 *  [jjmalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjmalina/)
 * (@jjmalina)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-importing-rss/)
 * I recently moved a client from Joomla to WordPress. The way I did this was by
   keeping the original Joomla site up, and working on a WordPress dummy in a separate
   directory. I found a script that transfers Joomla posts to WordPress so that 
   my dummy had all the old posts. When the dummy site was fully built, I deleted
   Joomla in the domain root and created a new wordpress installation there. I built
   everything back up but now I’m having a few strange issues.
 * I now cannot upload the WordPress export. export of all the posts that I had 
   in the dummy installation. When I try this I get the following error: **File 
   is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be 
   caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined
   as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.**
 * I have been talking with the hosting service’s support and they made sure that
   php.ini is configured correctly. They gave me an info.php file which says that
   I can upload files. I’m able to upload media, even high res pics, but the 3mb
   XML file will not upload.
 * Also another small issue I’m having is adding a the code for a twitter widget
   into a widget text box. On my dummy installation the code loaded fine but on 
   the main installation when I hit “save” the widget just gives me a loading icon
   and never actually saves. Here’s the widget code
    `<script src="http://widgets.
   twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> <script> new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type:'
   profile', rpp: 4, interval: 6000, width: 170, height: 300, theme: { shell: { 
   background: '#028100', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color:'#
   000000', links: '#068206' } }, features: { scrollbar: false, loop: true, live:
   false, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: 'default' }}).
   render().setUser('HungryDomaine').start(); </script>`

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 *  Thread Starter [jjmalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjmalina/)
 * (@jjmalina)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-importing-rss/#post-1473114)
 * Most of the posts in the XML save don’t have an author assigned to them, but 
   when I upload the XML to my localized wordpress installation it works fine. Is
   there some way to repair the wordpress installation on the root of my domain?
 *  Thread Starter [jjmalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjmalina/)
 * (@jjmalina)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-importing-rss/#post-1473156)
 * So I just completely reinstalled wordpress and I’m still getting the exact same
   issues. Is wordpress bugged?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [jjmalina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjmalina/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-importing-rss/#post-1473156)
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