Import from a 1.5.x WordPress blog

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  nicholascohen · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm

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  Hello All,

  I need to import wordpress data from an ancient 1.5x version of wordpress.

  Tried http://technosailor.com/2006/07/05/wordpress-to-wordpress-import/
  – Download broken

  Tried RSS2MT web-service. Only converter I could find borks on the RSS feed :(

  Java RSS2MT file I found, also borks, but this time on my version on java.

  Any ideas?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 2:52 pm

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  This is the wordpress.COM support forum but you have not posted the url for q wordpress.com blog. Are you referring to an import into a free hosted wordpress.COM blog or into a wordpress.ORG template?
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-read-me-first-before-posting?replies=1

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  nicholascohen · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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  Trying to import to http://nickcohen.net, a wordpress.COM hosted blog. I assumed that posting in the .COM forums would make it obvious, sorry! :-S

  From the old blog, hosted on a server. At the moment, I’m probably going to have to look at finding the old wordpress packages, and upgrading one by one till I get to a version with export capability, though it would be nice to have a faster way…

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  nicholascohen · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 4:28 pm

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  (Disclaimer: I am not Nicholas Cohen, I am working for him, hence posting under his account.)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 4:44 pm

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  With that old of version, it is probably best to contact staff directly. They may be able to help out. http://support.wordpress.COM/contact/

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 4:58 pm

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  By the way, you can check the “WP.org” tag to get an idea of how far from obvious your assumption was: wrong visits are our number one problem in this forum. Would be good if everybody thought like you!

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  nicholascohen · Member · Jan 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm

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  Upgrading release-by-release till we got the export feature did the trick.

  Thanks for the comments :)