problem importing XML file

  • dlawton

    (@dlawton)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I’m trying to migrate a blog from wordpress.com to a standalone wordpress.org installation.

    The blog has over 1000 posts and a lot of attachments, the XML generated from an export is about 11Mb. WordPress.org is unable to accept the 11Mb file so I found a splitter which works well to create smaller XML files. However, I still have a problem with the import, wordpress.org just times out, I’ve tried changing every timeout setting on the host with no luck. Each file goes through about 30 ‘items’ and then the page just stops loading and nothing else is imported.

    I spoke to my host (godaddy) and they said it’s possible to ftp the XML file over?? I haven’t been able to find a way to do this. Anyway, I really need some help on this. WordPress.com doesn’t seem to have any other way of exporting data except through this XML file, and for some reason the import just won’t work unless I use very small files, which means I will need to manually import about 200-300 XML files which I really don’t want to do!!

    Any help is greatly appreciated

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  • Thread Starter dlawton

    (@dlawton)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    solved by splitting file in 47 small xml files using a script and then uploading each. if the import screen times out, hit reload and send data again and it will skip by the completed items and continue importing the rest of the file.

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