othersideofcool

I considered importing the document to blogger, then exporting and importing from there (if that makes sense). But to import to blogger a document from wordpress it must first be converted (via https://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/) and during the conversion process I received the following error;

Error encountered during conversion.

Input WordPress document is not valid XML!!

Error appears around line 39738, column 28

<wp:comment_id>203</wp:comment_id>
—————————^

Does this mean there’s actually a problem with the xml file I exported from wordpress? On my browser the little arrow is pointing at the 203. Any idea what this means and how I can fix it?

To eliminate any tag problems I just deleted all the tags on my blog and exported again, tried the import.

Now I dont get the ‘failed to import post tag’ error, instead just nothing happens.

I click import, it goes to 100% then asks me to import author/assign to admin and asks if i want to download attachments. I click to continue, it takes a while then loads a blank page and no posts are imported. Driving me crazy.

Hey!

So a week has passed and I’m still not able to import. My old blog is https://www.joeandharryabroad.wordpress.com and I export that, then log into movingonupaway.com and try to import (which I thought would be easy as its wordpress to wordpress) but it just tells me

Failed to import post tag

multiple times and no posts or anything are imported. As its been over a week I guess the url change is not the issue… any ideas, has anyone had this problem before?

Ah I see I had no idea. Thanks so much I will try again in a few days. Fingers crossed.

Yes I was using movingonupaway.com on wordpress.com until today. I made the export about an hour ago, have set up the hosting and now want to import. Probably I’m missing something really simple… I hope so!

Hi Esmi,

Correct, the URL hasn’t changed. I’ve pointed the name servers to the new host and its pointing to the new wordpress however because i can’t import the post its just the generic new to wordpress post/theme etc.

Is there something else I need to do?

Thanks!

Turns out I am as stupid as I look! When I was running the Cache Images plugin the .wordpress.com blog was made private (So there weren’t duplicate blogs floating around) so I guess that prevented it from working. I set it to public and scanned again and my photo’s seem to be back.

Thanks so much both of you for your help, I was going out of my mind!

I did have import all attachments checked. Is it possible for me to try importing the file again, will this over write what I have and possibly fix it or will it result in duplicate posts do you think?

Thank you!

Hi Media X- I do have access to the old one, its just set to private right now. When I did the Cache Image scan it actually located over 700 pics from othersideofcool.wordpress.com so I assumed it worked but they’re still not showing.

When I set up the new blog I just imported the export from othersideofcool.wordpress.com and I foolishly assumed that would include pictures. Is there some way I can move them across do you know?

Esmi- I mentioned I had already tried changing to a default theme and testing the plugins but neither resolved it so I don’t think the theme or a plugin is the issue.

Thanks!