Moving old posts to new blog

  • Hi guys, the title may seem deceptively easy.
    Actually I hope it is easy.

    I have my blog running for a few months now but only realised my problem when I tried to make some changes to it.

    I have my own domain but I had been redirecting my blog to https://paudie.wordpress.com
    the problem now is I want more control and I finally realised that I need to install wordpress on my own server. But it has set up a completely new blog for me, is there any way I can get my hands on all the old posts from the wordpress site, as I’m pretty sure I don’t have ftp access to that site.

    Thanks,

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  • In the WordPress dashboard you can go to Tools > Export > Download Export File. Then, in your new installation, go to Tools > Import > WordPress, then browse and upload the XML file which your previous export downloaded for you.

    Thread Starter paudiescanlon

    (@paudiescanlon)

    Thanks for the reply, I tried this but I got the following message
    Unable to create directory /home/paudiej/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03. Is its parent directory writable by the server

    I looked in the wp-content folder and there was no folder called uploads so created all the folders listed, then tried to upload it again and got the message

    The uploaded file could not be moved to /home/paudiej/public_html/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03

    any ideas on where to go from here?

    Thanks,

    There are 2 things I can think of that can cause this. One is if the directory actually isn’t writable. Make sure all of your folder/directory permissions are 755. This may also be affected by your uploads path. In your Settings > Miscellaneous, check to make sure that your upload path doesn’t have a / in front of it. I don’t know if this affects imports, but it should be checked into, anyway. A correct example would be something like this: wp-content/uploads … and an incorrect example would be something like this /wp-content/uploads. Also make sure you are using lower-case letters for all of these.

    Thread Starter paudiescanlon

    (@paudiescanlon)

    no those two things seem to be as you say they should be.

    I tried to add a photo to a new post and got the same answer, anything else you think I should try?

    I’m thinking about just deleting everything and starting the install again.

    When checking permissions, some hosts require that you do NOT use 777 permissions, and some require you to have 777 permissions. Double-check all of the folders in that path. The public_html folder, blog, wp-content, uploads, 2009, and the 03 folder. Set all the permissions to 755 on each of them and if it still won’t work, try setting them to 777. If your upload path is not exactly wp-content/uploads, try changing it to that and see if it makes a difference.

    Thread Starter paudiescanlon

    (@paudiescanlon)

    that seems to have worked, thanks a million appreciate it

    Thread Starter paudiescanlon

    (@paudiescanlon)

    By the way, is it ok to leave all those folders as 777 now?

    Don’t leave them 777. Those are not secure permissions.

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