Blog.com Migration
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Hi,
Years ago I hosted a blog on blog.com and was disappointed to learn that the site has been down for some time now. I found a third-party forum with lots of equally disappointed users, and one person who alluded to Blog.com possibly having ties to WordPress.
A few years ago, when Xanga was shutting down, they messaged all their users with ways to export their Xanga into WordPress– an option I was thankful for, and happy to take advantage of. I don’t know if there truly is (or was) a connection between Blog.com and WordPress, but perhaps this is an option that could be extended to old Blog.com users as well? It could be a good way to increase WordPress membership…
Just a thought! If anyone knows of other ways it might be possible to retrieve old Blog.com material I’d be very interested in hearing it… Thanks!
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HI there,
Before blog.com shut down at the end of 2015 they did send out emails with export instructions to all their users. But you had to export and migrate your content before a certain date.
By now blog.com’s servers have been offline for the better part of a year, and there is no way for anyone to access that data any more. Any content you had on their servers most likely no longer exists.
one person who alluded to Blog.com possibly having ties to WordPress
There has never been any relationship between blog.com and WordPress.com. While all blog.com users are certainly welcome here, we simply have no way to access your content that was on their servers
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Thanks for the quick response! That’s a bummer, and I guess their emails must have gone to spam because I’ve checked both accounts I had linked to Blog.com and turned up nothing. Thanks again for letting me know, though.
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One thing you could try that I just thought of:
If your site with blog.com was public, and you still remember the address, you can try searching for it here:
That site might have snapshots of your site from when it was online, and while there’s no way to export content from that snapshot, you should be able to copy-paste it into a new site and recover the content that way.
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Oh wow! It’s not perfect (pics seem to have been lost) but it’s certainly better than nothing! Thanks so much… I knew nothing really ever disappeared from the Internet!
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