Exporting .org blog to self-hosted WP

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  stonneway · Member · Sep 7, 2008 at 5:39 pm

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  Hi,

  I want to move to my own hosted WP implementation, but I dont want to loose my current wordpress.com blog entries and images etc.

  Is there a way I can export my data from my WP.com blog and import it in to my new WordPress (self-hosted) blog ?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 7, 2008 at 5:57 pm

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  By typing “export blog” into the FAQ search box I found these. The FAQ’s are overflowing with very useful information, and they cover most questions bloggers have.

  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/how-do-i-move-between-blogs/
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/can-i-migrate-my-blog-from-here-to-another-blog-somewhere-else/
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/how-do-i-move-between-blogs-2/

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  ergosity · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 1:05 pm

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  Hi,
  I checked out all of those, and a few others. None of them, it seems, makes reference to saving widgets, e.g. RSS and Links.
  I’m setting up a new blog at the moment. I’d like to develop it on wordpress.com, but ultimately I’d like to move to self-hosted wordpress.org. Will the export file contain everthing, or is it just posts and comments?
  TIA for any advice…

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  rosclarke · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 1:13 pm

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  Just posts and comments as far as I know.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 25, 2008 at 2:36 pm

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  /nod to rosclarke

  Yes, posts, pages, categories, tags, comments. Links have to be exported/imported separately.