Exporting & Importing – what happens to links within a post?

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  earthpages · Member · Nov 6, 2009 at 3:07 am

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  In my posts I’m starting to use links that point to other posts in the same overall blog. For clarity I’ll discuss the following post:

  http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/ramakrishna-sri/

  Because I often update/republish the overall blog I’ve chosen to make the hyperlinks point to a search string, for example:

  That way when I update/republish the post on “Numinous” the link to it from “Sri Ramakrishna” will still work.

  Okay… so my question is:

  Let’s say at some point I want to make the change to WordPress.org. I export my WordPress.com blog and import it to my new and compliant web host. Correct?

  But what happens to the links within my posts? — e.g.

  Currently they have “earthpages.wordpress.com/” within them. Will this be automatically corrected when importing?

  And would the search syntax in the link — “?s=numinous” — work in WordPress.org?

  Thanks in advance.

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  earthpages · Member · Nov 6, 2009 at 3:12 am

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  Oops. I posted the example hyperlink from the export file, which activated everything after it. What I should have done is this:

  http://earthpages.wordpress.com/?s=numinous

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  earthpages · Member · Nov 6, 2009 at 3:18 am

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  This is the corrected version; hopefully easier to follow

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  In my posts I’m starting to use links that point to other posts in the same overall blog. For clarity I’ll discuss the following post:

  http://earthpages.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/ramakrishna-sri/

  Because I often update/republish the overall blog I’ve chosen to make the hyperlinks point to a search string, for example:

  http://earthpages.wordpress.com/?s=numinous

  That way when I update/republish the post on “Numinous” the link to it from “Sri Ramakrishna” will still work.

  Okay… so my question is:

  Let’s say at some point I want to make the change to WordPress.org. I export my WordPress.com blog and import it to my new and compliant web host. Correct?

  But what happens to the links within my posts? — e.g.

  Currently they have “earthpages.wordpress.com/” within them. Will this be automatically corrected when importing?

  And would the search syntax in the link — “?s=numinous” — work in WordPress.org?

  Thanks in advance.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 6, 2009 at 3:23 am

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  When you post links and code, please post it between backticks, those little marks usually on the same key as the ~. So Backtick, all the code, Backtick.

  Otherwise as you’ve noticed, we can’t read it.

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  earthpages · Member · Nov 6, 2009 at 4:29 pm

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  Thanks raincoaster. I’ve run into that issue before and once it happened this time I knew there was a way to avoid it (I used to create web pages before becoming a blogger…).