Works when importing .xml to local computer

  • I note the importer says “Choose a file from your computer: (Maximum size: 2 MB)”. My .xml file (created from a wordpress.com blog) was 545 kiloBytes, so maybe that’s why it worked for me.

    My blog has 111 posts each with a fairly large image. Using theme Duotone.

    I notice that many people say that they end up with the images displayed being still the ones on their original wordpress site. Not in my case. All the images arrived at my local computer and by looking at the web page’s html source I can see that the local files are being accessed.

    It will be interesting to see if it is equally easy uploading to a remote computer.

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  • Thread Starter roadie

    (@roadie)

    I then tried it to upload the blog to a new self-hosted server.

    Short version – it worked.

    Long version – it takes a long time. I was using the network monitor to keep an eye on progress, so when I saw that nothing was happening after twenty minutes, I stopped it and restarted it. When I came back from lunch I saw a message that it had finished and that lots of images weren’t copied because they were already there. I hadn’t realized that, as I gave it the .xml file I got from wordpress.com, it was getting all the images from there, so there was no network traffic with my local computer.

    However, say half an hour for 111 posts with images totalling 74.4 MB. If you have a much bigger blog, you might need to run it overnight. You don’t get any feedback until it has finished.

    The message “Choose a file from your computer: (Maximum size: xx MB)” refers to the maximum size of file that php can upload (not just .xml files) and will vary from server to server according to config settings.

    One bug – the line
    <description>A collection of empty noticeboards</description>
    in the .xml file which is supposed to set up the tagline, was ignored.

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