export images from wordpress.com to worpress.org
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Hello all,
I am not sure whether this is a proper question or not. Now, I am working on exporting my contents on wordpress.com to a new hosted site on wordpress.org. I am pretty sure for keeping the original site on wordpress.com. The moving is just for making a site allowing for java-based programmes working.
My question is whether there is any good procedures for exporting images in such a case. While I could manage to export text stuffs with the default exporting tools, it seems for images to be exported manually… I’m wondering if there is a “magic” to avoid it… Of course, I searched here, but I could not reach a specific answer…
I would be happy if you gave me some suggestions.
Best,
yukio
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Hello Yukio,
I believe that you can actually move your images, or rather, that wp.com will do it for you now. I set up 2 new blogs a month ago and the pictures transferred.
But if I recall correctly, the first time I made a test blog over a year ago, it was clear that images would not transfer to the new blog without asking for staff intervention.
Back then, It didn’t matter to me that the images remained attached to the original “real” blog because I only wanted to populate the test blog so I could see how posts would function when I experimented and tested things.
The support articles are confusing:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ Last modified: December 24, 2009 <strong>Moving Between WordPress.com Blogs</strong> (I have done this 2 times and photos and attachments were successfully transferred.) "Note: To make sure your photos and other attachments are imported, be sure to tick the ‘Download and import file attachments’ box in the 2nd step of the import process." <strong>Moving to WordPress.org</strong> (I have not done this, but the procedure looks very similar.) "…choose the option to Download & import file attachments."http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ Last modified: December 3, 2009 Seems to contradict the above support article. …but…Import a Website
Last modified: December 1, 2009 Seems to confirm my experience of transferring images from one blog to the other.By the way, I’m still impressed by the video in your blog about the tacoma narrows bridge collapse…
Tess
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Hello 1tess,
How are you, by the way?
Thanks for your posting helpful links. I should have searched them before…
Although I exported contents in wordpress.com to .org, while they can be showed up in the new site including images, naturally, they were not imported into new media libraries, and linked to .com’s libraries… I thought that there might be some magics, bu now I realised I should do it manually according to your 2nd support articles.
Moreover, the my new theme needs lager-sized picts than my current theme, so eventually I realised I had to make new picts once more. (I am sorry I cannot post my new url, since it has been really under construction and messy now.)
In any way, my destiny was decided to do it manually…Many thanks, 1tess. This article should help someone.
And I’m also loving your Japanese foods, especially kuromae’s one is so sweet, which is one of my favourites!yukio
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Oh, I made a mistake, not “kuromae”, but “kuromame”! ->http://1tess.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/kuromame-sweet-black-beans/
thanks!
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Please let me correct my mistake. Because my previous misunderstanding might erode the wordpress’s superb technology…
Even though I commented in the previous post that I could not export attached images into the media library in the self-hosted site by wordpress.org, that was my misunderstanding. In fact, I’ve done it now…
My mistake was that I forgot to check the radio button saying “Download and Import attached files” in the admin window of the wordpress.org, because I thought that would exceed the limited amount of importing file size in wordpress.org, which said it’s up to 2 Mega.
But in fact, by repeating the same importing procedure with using e same .xml file until it finishes downloading all of the attached files, even if the total size is more than 2 Mega, that worpress.org’s import function can work with just skipping the same file if it already exists. Even though in my case I repeated it about 20 times, finally all of the image files have been imported. What a technology you made!
Therefore, if you want to export your blog to your hosted blog by wordpress.org, you can do that just by exporting your .xml file with using the export function of wordpress.com, then importing that file with using the import function of wordpress.org with checking “Download and Import attached files”, with repeating it until it import all attached files.
I hope this correction for my misunderstanding could help someone and this might not confuse those who will do the same thing.
yukio
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Yukio,
I’m very glad to hear that. I had exported from one wp.com to another wp.com, but never to a self-hosted blog. Excellent that you got it to work!
Tess
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Yukio,
I made an even bigger spelling error, right in the first line of this post!
http://1tess.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/hambaagu-japanese-style-hamburgers/#comment-3066We try our best…
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