wordpress.com TO wordpess.org

You’ll want to install this plugin on your new hosted WP blog: https://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/

Read the instructions carefully.

Then you’ll go to your old WP.COM blog, do an export, then this plugin will help you import your posts, cats and comments.

alright, i will try to install the plugin..

If it helps, you might glance at Managing_plugins. Among other things, there’s some helpful installation information.

Let us know how it goes.

Import WordPress

Sorry, there has been an error.

Unable to create directory /home/freakzte/public_html/mydeskmod/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12. Is its parent directory writable by the server?

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WHAT IS THAT?

Is its parent directory writable by the server?

Is it?
/home/freakzte/public_html/mydeskmod/blog/wp-content/ should have the permissions set such that your web server process can write to it.

This may be helpful: Changing_File_Permissions

alright everything working ?? thanks for the help HandySolo

I am having trouble with this one myself. I have searched the forums and found the plugin I need from technosailor. However, when I download the zipfile, I cannot open it (using XP built-in zipfile). Therefore, I cannot upload the two files as instructed.

Tried uploading the tar.gz file to my host space and extracting it from cPanel File Manager but this isnt working either. It just doesnt seem to do anything (not real up on this so just clicked on the file and then “extract file contents” – nothing appeared in the folder).

Tried exporting from my WordPress.com blog as xml file and importing from RSS but that screwed up all my categories (I now have a blank category for each post which is going to take a while to manually fix each one). Comments disappeared also but I can live with that – the category problem a bit serious though if the plugin will do it better.

I am a bit stuck – any suggestions ??

cheers
Leah
https://aussiesapphire.wordpress.com (old blog)
https://www.aussiesapphire.com.au/blog (new blog)

Hi Leah – you really want to use the technosailer plugin, so I’d try grabbing a fresh download (in case your earlier one was borked) and perhaps a different tool for unzipping it. Winzip or 7zip would work I’d imagine.

As you noticed, using the .org RSS importer for the .COM export format isn’t real predictable… I’d dump those imported posts and try again with the plugin.

thanks – I had worded out that the technosailer doover is what I need – just got stuck getting the file to open. I will try it with Winzip at work later today.

Is there any way of bulk dumping the posts in the new blog ?

cheers
Leah

Is there any way of bulk dumping the posts in the new blog ?

Only ways I know to do that assume you have full database access on both ends. With one end being wordpress.COM, you don’t have that luxury.

Now, you could go the old school route and do a pure RSS import. You’ll ONLY get posts, no comments, cats, etc.

Go to your WP.com blog and set the syndication to a very large number. One large enough to catch all the posts.
View the RSS feed for the WP.com blog and save it to a file on your computer.
Go to your new hosted WP.org blog and do the RSS import, pointing it at the file you just saved.

But really, the plugin is soooo much easier.

<< View the RSS feed for the WP.com blog and save it to a file on your computer >>

Is that something different than having the export tool spit out an .xml file?

Yup.

You literally click your feed link (at the wp.com) blog and view it in your browser — and save it to a file on your computer.

Well, this is something I haven’t tried. Can I just paste my feed address into the browser? And when I save the file, what extension should it have?
By gawd, Handy. I do believe you’ll be the one to get this horrid mess worked out for me.

Can I just paste my feed address into the browser?

With most “modern” browsers, yep. What you want to see is a page full o’ XML. If you see something pretty (like what IE7 or Firefox 2 show) then go for View Source and save *that* instead.

And when I save the file, what extension should it have?

Doesn’t much matter. .xml should suffice.

Now remember, you’re losing some content by going this route instead of the plugin (comments, etc.).

But then again, maybe this’ll work better with your host.

Luck!

Man, I’m sooooo close here. I put the feed in the browser and saved it as an xhtml file. Imported that and it was succesful, with the “have fun” message and all that. However, a pop over to my site showed no old posts. Is it because I didn’t save the view source, as you suggested in your last comment?