Importing a very old website into wordpress; is this possible at all?
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Hey there Help Desk,
I am thinking of restarting my wordpress activities by importing my very old website to wordpress and working on it in your system. My question is if this is at all possible. That is, the system it is to be imported from is homestead.com This is a very outdated system which started in 2002. The website can be found under domain name: http://www.chinareport.com
ChinaReport.com is the main website. We could run a test by first importing a much more limited website which can be found under http://www.uzbekistanreport.com
I have seen that there are various import options, but of course I could not find homestead.com in the listing. So first question is: is this import possible.
If so, I would love to hear how to do this. I have already seen that this requires a wordpress upgrade, but that is not a problem.I hope it can be done.
Sincerely, Ben Nijhoff in The Netherlands.
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Hello Ben,
I believe this is possible and if so you can proceed by going here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/coming-from-self-hosted/
Let me know if you are still having trouble so we can proceed to the next step.
Best of luck to you.
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Hi there, if it looks like homestead’s websites cannot be exported in XML format or any of the other available import formats here on WordPressdotcom, perhaps this link will help as well https://transferto.wordpress.com/drag-and-drophtml-site-builders/
I did find a 2-year old reply on homestead Customer Community that mentions their format is not compatible with WordPress.
Again, let us know if you need help with anything else.
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