Importing XML file to www.remarpro.com

  • Resolved conorlong

    (@conorlong)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m trying to move my blog from WordPress.com to www.remarpro.com.
    I exported my blog to a XML file and have WordPress set up on with my host.
    But when I import my XML file that I’ve saved to my computer from the WordPress dashboard it uploads the XML file as a TXT file, with the end of the file name as xml_.txt
    It also uploads one JPG file, and that’s it.
    If I try and upload it again, it uploads the XML file as another TXT file and another JPG file.

    Can anyone help me with this please? Is it a problem with the WordPress Importer?

    Thanks for any help folks..

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  • I use the Importer all of the time and it’s working just fine. How exactly are you importing the .xml file?

    Thread Starter conorlong

    (@conorlong)

    I log into my WordPress account, go to the dashboard and click on Tools>Import;
    Then WordPress,
    I choose my XML file from where I’ve save it previously and then click ‘Upload and import’
    The XML file is uploaded as a TXT file, and it also uploads the 1st JPG image from the first post I wrote when my blog was on WordPress.com
    If I try to upload it again, I get another xml_.txt file and another JPG image.
    I wonder if I kept importing it would I eventually get all the media uploaded, and then just delete the xml_.txt files?
    Although that obviously seems like a very unorthodox method!

    Thread Starter conorlong

    (@conorlong)

    Ok, I uploaded the XML file again, only this time I didn’t tick the ‘Download and import file attachments’ box.
    The posts all uploaded, but the blog is in a bit of a mess, and obviously none of the JPG files uploaded.
    I was using the Oxygen theme, so i’ve installed that again. But it still look nothing like it did before I started the process of moving from WordPress.com
    None of the Widgets or columns were uploaded, although the tags and comments and categories were!

    What domain name were you using on your wordpress.com site when you created the export file?
    What domain name are you using on your self-hosted site now?

    Thread Starter conorlong

    (@conorlong)

    lifeoutforeign.com is the domain for both of them..

    So you are trying to import content from lifeoutforeign.com to lifeoutforeign.com. Can you see the problem here?

    Thread Starter conorlong

    (@conorlong)

    Hey, sorry for delay in replying. I’m afraid I don’t see the problem. As I understand it, it should be possible to import a blog from WordPress.com to www.remarpro.com
    Anyway, eventually it imported all the images, but they were imported one at a time. As in I had to go through the import process repeatedly until all the images were imported. I also had to set up the page pretty much from scratch as the widgets and so on weren’t imported either. But I presume that’s somewhat normal as www.remarpro.com uses plugins more than widgets..

    Anyway, thanks for you help.

    Regards, Conor

    I installed the php-xml package in the Linux server and it solved my problem.

    $:> yum install php-xml
    $:> service httpd restart

    Hope it helps someone in the future.

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