importing my blog from an old WP install

“I was able to save all my posts”

How did you save them? Using phpMyAdmin or the WordPress Manage->Export.

If you are having problems with Manage->Import->WordPress then see if you can up the PHP upload limit in php.ini.

How did you save them? Using phpMyAdmin or the WordPress Manage->Export

Export

If you are having problems with Manage->Import->WordPress then see if you can up the PHP upload limit in php.ini.

That’s in wordpress, correct? Where do I look? Never did it before.

-Chuck

P.S. I was able to restore from a SQL Database Back up. But it was from Decemeber 5… I’d like to be able to put the ones from December 5 till now… Is wordpress smart enough to reject the dupes and keep the one’s it needs?

Where do I look?

Heh. When I say that, I mean, What Block of code am I looking for?

That’s in wordpress, correct? Where do I look? Never did it before.

No, the PHP.INI is not part of WordPress. It’s part of PHP.

I’d like to be able to put the ones from December 5 till now… Is wordpress smart enough to reject the dupes and keep the one’s it needs?

Possibly, but realistically, there’s a better way.

You say that your export file is 11.7 megs. Trying to import that will be a nightmare no matter how you slice it, you need to trim it down. Fortunately, it’s easy to do.

Open the export file in a decent text editor. I like TextPad myself. You’ll notice that the file is sorta like an RSS feed. It’s the same basic format with some extensions. But the important point is that all the content of each Post is held inside an “item”.

So, remove the items you already have in the DB. This will reduce the size of the file, right?

Also, if needed, you can split the file into two files, by making a copy of it and removing some items from one and some items from the other, then import them separately.

Use your imagination, the file is a text file and easily edited and fairly straightforward to do.

No, the PHP.INI is not part of WordPress. It’s part of PHP.

Yeah, after I sent that, I thought about it, yep, that’s not accessible, I’m on shared hosting.

Possibly, but realistically, there’s a better way.

You say that your export file is 11.7 megs. Trying to import that will be a nightmare no matter how you slice it, you need to trim it down. Fortunately, it’s easy to do.

Open the export file in a decent text editor. I like TextPad myself. You’ll notice that the file is sorta like an RSS feed. It’s the same basic format with some extensions. But the important point is that all the content of each Post is held inside an “item”.

So, remove the items you already have in the DB. This will reduce the size of the file, right?

Also, if needed, you can split the file into two files, by making a copy of it and removing some items from one and some items from the other, then import them separately.

Use your imagination, the file is a text file and easily edited and fairly straightforward to do.

Yeah, I’ll have to give that a try… Nice Idea… thanks for your help… ??

-Chuck

P.S. See? I can be a nice guy, once and a while. ;-P

Just letting you all know. I did what was suggested and it worked great.

Thanks for the help.