Downloading Blogs

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  caribekim · Member · Nov 7, 2021 at 10:35 pm

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  I’ve been doing a monthly blog for about eight years. Soon I will want to put these into book form. How can I download by blogs?

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  fstat · Staff · Nov 8, 2021 at 8:56 am

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  Hi there,

  There are a few blog-to-book services like FastPencil and BlogBooker that let you import your blog and turn it into a physical or digital book. Here are their sites:

  http://www.fastpencil.com/

  http://www.blogbooker.com/

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  caribekim · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 2:01 pm

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  I appreciate the info, but definitely not what I want to do. I already have a publisher. There’s no way to download the blogs to my machine?

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  aleone89 · Staff · Nov 8, 2021 at 3:18 pm

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  Hello there,

  It’s possible to download an export via Tools > Export.

  Is there a particular format you’re looking to export to?

  Many thanks.

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  caribekim · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 3:52 pm

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  I tried that a couple of weeks ago. But they all extract as an XML file with all of the HTML code. Useless!

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  divyaab · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 5:08 pm

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  Hi @caribekim,

  You can try the below link to convert your blog into a PDF format file in simple steps. Just provide the blog URL and exported XML file and it will be done.

  https://blogbooker.com/wordpress.php

  You can also right-click on the blog and select the Print option. Then try to save that as a PDF, or you can load the page completely, as on your front page already have all the blogs(load older ones) and save them as PDF. But this is a long process.

  Hope this helps!

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  divyaab · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 6:23 pm

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  The above options you can explore if you wish to save the blog as PDF format as a workaround.

  I am tagging this for staff attention so they can better guide if any plugin or other approach helps with the same.

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  caribekim · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 6:55 pm

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  This was interesting but it didn’t work completely. It only re-formatted two years of the eight. I did it twice too. Why wouldn’t it do all of the blogs?

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Nov 8, 2021 at 7:02 pm

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  @divyaab – Staff have already replied to this and are notified of any updates, so you don’t need to tag any threads with Staff replies in the future. Additionally, the OP’s site is not on the free WordPress.com plan, which would not allow them to use plugins.

  
  @caribekim – the options @fstat provided initially will let you export and print and save your blog to a PDF export which you should be able to provide to your publisher. BlogBooker seems to have a simpler interface, so that might be the quickest option for you.

  Hope that helps.