Import from self-hosted blog leaves hard links

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  joneall · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 3:58 pm

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  I used the export/import method prescribed to import my wife’s blog into wordpress.com. The site is there at the gosh-awful address

  http://akismetuser540414415.wordpress.com/

  and the home-page content is correct, but as soon as I click on a link in it, it takes me back to the original site at siv-blog.sjoneall.net.

  This is obviously not useable.

  What to do?

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  lettergrade · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:01 pm

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  Are you only seeing links in the content set up this way? If so, it’s likely that they might be hard-coded into your content. Could you check your links in your posts (by visiting your post edit screens for the posts in question) and see if the full link is there? If that’s the case, you’ll need to change them individually.

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  joneall · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:12 pm

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  Also, comments were not imported.

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  lettergrade · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm

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  I do see comments on the new site. Compare these:
  http://siv-blog.sjoneall.net/?page_id=70
  http://akismetuser540414415.wordpress.com/sketches/chapter-two/

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  joneall · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:17 pm

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  When I look at the html (text), I see links like this:

  < a title=”Prologue: A look back in history” href=”http://siv-blog.sjoneall.net/?page_id=97″ >

  Is that what you mean?

  Actually, my wife is using WP in a rather non-bloggish way. The link example is from the _only_ post, which is essentially a table of contents with links to “chapters” which are pages, not posts. Does that explain the problem?

  There are not so many that I cannot change them by hand.

  But where did the comments go?

  Thanks, Lettergrade.

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  joneall · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:18 pm

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  Ok for the comments. Sorry, I did not scroll down far enought. The format is different… but I will soon fix that.

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  lettergrade · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:20 pm

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  Whoops, can’t see what you’re posting. Please use the ‘code’ button above when you’re posting code here, and I’ll check it out for you!

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  joneall · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm

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  Why is it called akismetuser540414415? How do I change that? Or is that another topic?

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:57 pm

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  It looks like you may have inadvertently created a blog with your Akismet login, without previously setting up a WordPress.com account.

  To change the website address (and the corresponding username), you can do so by following the instructions here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/changing-blog-address/

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  lettergrade · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:57 pm

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  If you want a different url, here are some areas you can look into:
  Changing a Blog Address
  All About Domains

  And unfortunately, it looks like those links are manually coded into the content, and will need to be changed by hand. But a find-and-replace could be done to replace the old root url with the new one.

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 4:59 pm

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  Also, it looks like the reason the links aren’t working is that they are anchor links. You will need to modify those by hand because to WordPress.com, they are like any other link you might have put on the page linking to another site, not to an internal page.

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  akismetuser540414415 · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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  Ok, I guess my questions are answered.

  I have to do those “hard” links again. No problem.

  The comments are included.

  Thanks a lot.

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  jackiedana · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 5:35 pm

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  You’re welcome! As lettergrade noted, you should be able to fix them up pretty quickly by copying the HTML code to a text editor and doing a search and replace.