Nostra

Things I would be able to do easily on my own PC, but looking at the Bluehost cPanel I have no idea how to access the database itself or run the install.php.

Well, I am allowed to change the php.ini myself, so I will just increase the number quite a bit and redo the import. If that doesn’t work I will try splitting the import files.

What’s the easiest way to clear it all and redo the import. Have done a re-install of WordPress previously, but there must be an easier way.

As stated I did change the max file size. Can I find the max execution time setting in the same place?

Seems there are a lot of issues with the import tool (have googled a lot, but haven’t found any solution for the WP import plugin). I did however found a plugin called “Hot Linked Image Cacher”, which goes through every post you have and downloads all the linked images and replaces the links with local versions.

Downside is that it removes all the naming you might have given your images and gives it a random code and secondly the images will not appear in your library. For now I guess this will have to do as it means I could close down the .com blog without it effecting my self hosted blog.

Have done some more testing and found out that if I don’t check the option to import the attached files (which I assume are all the pictures), the import goes fine. Problem I then have is that all my pictures are still hosted on my wordpress.com site, which I obviously want to change. Since I have close to 700 posts it’s impossible to do this manually and change each and every post to point to the new files.