Combining two WordPress blogs

jmiwonderings · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 3:54 pm
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I’m trying to import my old blog into my new blog (both wordpress). I have the .xml file, but it says it’s not valid.

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spunkyadventuress · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 5:24 pm
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Hi jmiwonderings –

On wordpress.com, you can’t upload custom themes, which is what it sounds like you are attempting to do. You CAN upload custom themes on wordpress.org, which is a different platform.

Here’s a link to help you out: https://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/
jmiwonderings · Member · Apr 12, 2017 at 6:38 pm
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Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I’m trying to import my old blog into my new blog. But the .xml file I exported, says it’s not valid.
spunkyadventuress · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 3:31 am
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I don’t believe it’s possible to upload files from one wordpress.com to another wordpress.com site.

My understanding is that you can change domain names and you can change users, and you can import information from a .org site (the .xml file) to a .com, but not .com to .com in the way you are suggesting. I’ve copied two links below for you that discuss how to change the blog – either the owner/username, or the site address.

Transferring to another account: https://en.support.wordpress.com/transferring-a-site-to-another-wordpress-com-account/

Changing the address: https://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

I’m also tagging a mod to review this in case I’m missing something.
justjennifer · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 5:22 am
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@jmiwonderings – Is the old blog’s XML from a standalone WP(org) site? If so, what version of WP was it exported from? How big is the XML file?
jmiwonderings · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 6:27 am
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The old blog site is lipstickandlemurs.com (I’m not a techie, so I’m not sure what standalone refers to). The xml file is 1.7MB.
kokkieh · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 6:33 am
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Hi there,

To what site are you trying to import? I don’t see any attempted imports at all on http://jmiwonderings.wordpress.com/

Is the file you are trying to import ending in .xml or in .zip? If it’s a .zip folder, you’ll first need to extract it (on Mac, simply double-clicking the folder in Finder will do that) and then upload the .xml file inside the folder.
kokkieh · Staff · Apr 13, 2017 at 6:34 am
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@spunkyadventuress

I don’t believe it’s possible to upload files from one wordpress.com to another wordpress.com site.

Did you try searching the support documents for the word “import”?

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spunkyadventuress · Member · Apr 13, 2017 at 3:47 pm
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@kokkieh

I did, several times! Everything I found was from self-hosted to .com, or about themes, or something unrelated, even after a wide array of search terms. Only when I just now tried ‘import’ by itself did that link you shared show up in the support section. Thank you for the direction! I really appreciate it. I’m trying to learn all I can to help others, but I am still learning the .com side of the support.
kokkieh · Staff · Apr 14, 2017 at 5:59 am
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@spunkyadventuress

We all started there :)

Remember that you can also search the forums themselves, and you can search forum tags to get previous answers on a topic. When looking at old forum answers, just note the dates – older threads can often contain outdated information so try to refer to recent threads as far as possible.
justjennifer · Member · Apr 14, 2017 at 7:31 am
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and the Support site search also brings back mostly recent results from the forums as well. :)
jmiwonderings · Member · Apr 14, 2017 at 12:30 pm
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I found the answer elsewhere. For anyone interested, it is possible to merge two wordpress.com blogs together. And once I figured it out, it actually was easy.
justjennifer · Member · Apr 14, 2017 at 12:48 pm
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Thanks for coming back and letting us know. Happy blogging. :)

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