How do I duplicate my wp.com blog on my pc for backup purpose
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I have 4 blogs hosted with WordPress.com. I want to run all 4 locally on my PC as a way to backup and to play with.
Should I use my Kubuntu 18.04 desktop
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My Windows 10 Pro laptop preferred.I say laptop because that’s my daily driver and it goes where I go and my desktop sits at home and I only have access to home from about 9:30 PM to 10 AM.
My blogs are:
blog.universal-mechanism.org
azure-sciencesandtechnologies.com
carters.life
homier.familySo what I’m asking is a way to run my very own little WordPress.com website complete with 4 blogs. Is this possible. If not, can I at least back up my data wholesale all at once. I’m not going anywhere, I just want to backup my blogs, and I thought it would be cool to have my own version of the website. I do have some experience with Apache and databases, etc on Ubuntu and Debian. I’m new to Windows, so I have no idea if this is possible with Windows, I know it’s possible with Linux because I have run my own WordPress.org blog years ago. But it’s been a while since I ran a web server, a loooong while.
Thank you.Nate.
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I found this howto here at: WordPress on Windows using WAMP
What do you think about that link. Will this still apply for 2018, blog is from 2014. Do I need to modify the howto for the current version of WordPress. And the question still remains, how do I get my WordPress.com blogs onto my local copy?
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Hi. I got WordPress running great on my Windows 10 Pro laptop. I used WAMP here at WAMP and I selected to use the MySQL database because MariaDB didn’t work with WordPress. MariaDB works fine, but not in the current release of WAMP or not without work. Unless your someone with database knowledge, I would use MySQL.
Now, how do I download my blogs. Let’s make it easy, we’ll just do this one: blog.universal-mechanism.org
I want to download the media and all the database too. Or do I not need to download the database? Perhaps I can recreate the database and just download some kind of schema, like XML.The reason I want to do this is so I can have a backup and to see how my changes will look before I post, especially with photos and graphics and theme changes. Of course I am aware that some themes are paid themes that I have access to on my premium plan and not at home on my laptop.
Thank you, Nate.
P.S. Almost solved!
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I went digging around in my blog.universal-mechanism.org blog setting and found the export feature. I exported the blog using the export all function to an XML file. But before I import the file into my running local WordPress copy, I’d like to know how to download all my WordPress.com media while maintaining the proper directory structure.
Thank you Nate.
P.S. Really, all that’s left is how to download the media from WordPress.com while preserving the directory structure. After that I can head over to WordPress.org forums to ask about my local copy.
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Hi there,
It looks like you’ve managed to figure most of this out. To run WordPress locally on your computer you’d need to run a virtual server, and WAMP if the most popular option. But also keep in mind that if you do this you’ll be running the open source version of WordPress, not WordPress.com. WordPress.com cannot be run locally on your computer, as it’s a custom WordPress implementation that only exists on our servers, so the local-hosted site will not look and work exactly the same as your live sites on WordPress.com.
You can find the official documentation for running WordPress locally here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Installing_WordPress_on_your_own_Computer
The only way to move your content from a WordPress.com site to a local-hosted one is via the export/import feature. A WordPress export file does not contain media files, as it’s an .XML file containing text content only. However, when you import that file to another site, the importer on the target site should fetch your media files from where it’s hosted online. I’m not sure how well this works for local installations, though.
We don’t offer any way to download/export the media library itself on WordPress.com.
For more help on that side of things, please ask in the self-hosted WordPress forums, as they provide support for the version of WordPress you’re running locally on your machine. As that version is not the same as the one we use on WordPress.com we’re not able to help with that.
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