Exporting From WordPress
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I have a blog on my own domain that I’ve used for at least 6 years. I haven’t had time to keep it up to date all the time, but it does have posts I don’t want to lose.
The problem is that this blog (hosted by westhost.com, if that matters) stopped working and I followed directions to update it and those didn’t work. We restored a backup, but the blog still doesn’t work from the website.
Is there some way, using MySQL, that I can create an export file or create data so I can import data from that blog to one on WordPress.com? I do have full command line access to that account, which runs on Linux and can access the MySQL databases to create backup files.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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For that blog’s support, you need to be at wordpress.org. It’s not running the same version of the software as we are, and the answers will be different.
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Okay, let’s flip it. What kind of formats can WordPress, here, import? I can access the DB on that site and use a Perl script or two to change the data into any format I need. So how can I find what the possible import formats are for this site and what the specs for the files are?
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This still isn’t much of a help.
I find articles on using MySQL, most involve using phpAdmin.
But what I am NOT finding is anything on how to import to my blog at WordPress.com if all I can get is MySQL files from my old blog.
WordPress on my old site, which is NOT at WordPress.com, is dead. But MySQL is still working fine and I can use the command line and MySQL commands to output anything I need in MySQL or create backup files for an entire database or just table by table.
What I cannot find, after extensive searching, is how to take either a MySQL database or a backup file created by MySQL and import it into WordPress.com.
If WordPress.com let me use ssh and a command line interface, I could do it – or if they had phpAdmin, I could do it, but I don’t see anything indicating that. All WordPress.com offers is an import of the WordPress backup file – not an import of MySQL data.
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But what I am NOT finding is anything on how to import to my blog at WordPress.com if all I can get is MySQL files from my old blog.
That’s a no can do here. You need an XML export file format to be able to import it into a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/You get one by first importing MySQL files into a WordPress.org install and then creating an XML export file.
If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
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Okay, so I can export my databases from MySQL, use WordPress.org to convert those DB files (or backup files) to an XML file tha WordPress.com can read.
Am I stating that correctly?
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Yes. I stated that correctly above. Register a WordPress.org account and discuss the process in the WordPress.org support forums please.
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