axyoung

So I can’t import posts unless I am uploaded to a host like Bluehost?

Because currently, I am just on what I guess you call a local host (where only I can see the site) and the importing posts function isn’t working…

Ok. Sorry. Let me try to explain this.

My current blog is consequenceofsound.com

It is a blog hosted by wordpress.com. In an attempt to make it more user friendly and professional looking, I’d like to move it from being hosted by wordpress to a self-hosted blog (using the program I downloaded from www.remarpro.com). This new self-hosted blog will be pointed to the consequenceofsound.com name.

However, in an effort to not interrupt my readership, I don’t want to upload the self-hosted blog from my computer (where only I can see it) to a host (such as bluehost, which I plan on using) until everything is ready to go.

I’d like to import all my posts that have previously appeared on the wordpress.com blog to this self-hosted one before uploading it. However, after I export the file to my desktop and then import it to the self-host, nothing loads and I get the aforementioned error.

Does this make sense?

I get this message when trying to import posts:

File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini.

Sorry to keep bumping. This is the error I’m getting:

“File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini.”

Anyone?