Freeing up space on our WordPress site

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    jcarlson123 · Member ·

    It looks like we have used up all available space on our WordPress site. I would like to find a way to copy the oldest posts or some of the posts to my own computer so I don’t have to delete and loose them to free up space for future posts. I have read a bit about “archiving”, but I don’t know if doing that would free space.

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  • supernovia · Staff ·

    Hi! I’d recommend against deleting older posts and images if you can avoid it. To back them up, you would need to create an installation of WordPress on your computer, export here, then import there and make sure the images come through.

    Other options include upgrading to add more space, moving your site to self-hosted WordPress, or creating another site as a sequel to this one and linking the two together (Just note the space limit on free sites is now 1GB).

    As another option, maybe you could remove some of the images from older posts, more them to a media sharing site like Flickr, and link to them in the posts.

    But if you can, I’d recommend upgrading. Right now we just have the Pro option, but I understand we’ll have more options soon:
    https://wordpress.com/plans

    Let us know if you have more questions!

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