Import-Export Issues

  • Hi,

    I was either unable or completely incapable to create a topic in any other forum or find the appropriate forum for this question, so any help will be more than welcome (even if it’s just a link to the forum in which to ask this).

    My problem is that I can’t seem to export my former website properly: the media doesn’t link to the right posts and not even all posts transfer. I tried to wipe and import the files several times, but to no avail.

    I recently moved from andreasnirvana.wordpress.com to andreasnirvana.com, the latter being hosted on BlueHost. I contacted them, looking for help when it comes to the issue, and they asked for backups for the database and the files (because my export files weren’t the right type?? i don’t know). I tried to reach out on the WordPress.com forums, and they said they don’t provide database backups. Also, I can’t use a plugin to download the sql database because my initial plan wasn’t a paid one, and thus doesn’t allow me to install plugins…. Please help?

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  • If your ex host server is still working and paid, you can download the right mysql data base(s) via host’s control panel (CPanel, etc.).

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Sadly that’s not available via WordPress.com – it’s a managed platform.

    Also if the traditional importer isn’t working, then you’ll be best served by paying $129 for a transfer: https://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/

    Because WP.com is behind a paywall, there’s not much else to be done for it ??

    First try:
    1. Export from wp-com according to https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
    2. Install a fresh WordPress on the new location.
    3. In the new WordPress look for Tools – Import – WordPress

    I believe I saw somewhere that wp-com nowadays may split your export into several files and zip them. If that’s the case then you may need to unzip them and import one at a time. (And you may need to import same file several times, in case your server would hit execution time constraints.)

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