Importing and Reorganizing
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My online presence is a mess and I’m intent on getting it under control in a new WordPress site. What I have is four separate Blogspot travel blogs from a several years ago and a rather stale WordPress travel blog that has several trips just strung together in one long impossible string. What I want to do is bring those into my new site under a “Trips” tab, with a link or tab for each trip and maybe a representative thumbnail photo and blurb. Is there a good guide reference that would step me through that process?
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Hello there,
Happy to help you with this.
Taking this step by step… Are you looking to import content from these other sites into the one site (i.e. darylleephotos.com) ?
If yes, please see how to do this here: https://wordpress.com/support/import/coming-from-blogger/ and here: https://wordpress.com/support/import/
Many thanks.
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Thanks for the quick response! Sadly, it got me nowhere. WordPress acts like it wants to install a plugin to handle the import: I get a dialog box asking for the hostname of my webserver and FTP credentials. My web server (for the moment) is a host on my home LAN. I can SFTP into it from my laptop via the credentials I supply to the dialog box, but the dialog box reports that it cannot connect. I have tried with hostname as “localhost”, the host’s IP address, and the host’s name from my laptop’s /etc/hosts file. I did get a warning early on that the import plugin had not been tested for my version of WordPress, but this feels like a problem getting the plugin installed.
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Well, I just realized I missed the very first part of your response. The final resting place for my new site will be on a new hosting service with a new URL. For now I’m using my iMac as a private server to get everything all presentable before publishing it to the world.
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We were working from the domain that was provided at the bottom of your initial post: darylleephotos.com
For now I’m using my iMac as a private server to get everything all presentable before publishing it to the world.
That help your previous reply make a bit more sense. :)
So it sounds like you are building the WordPress site locally on your computer. Once you feel good about that you will then clone or migrate that site to a hosting service to begin serving it on the web. Is that right?
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Yes, that reference was auto-generated on the original post. I probably should have followed up with a comment that it was true, but only to the extent that darylleephotos.com is the WordPress site that I want to import.
And, yes, when I get it all shiny and clean, I’ll move it to the hosting service that serves my other current lame site, and that one will disappear forever.
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I ran into identically the same problem when I tried to import a theme. Here is a screenshot that removes any doubt about what I’m seeing, but I don’t see a way to attach it.
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Ok, so that is a locally-hosted WordPress.org site, which we really can’t help with here.
To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities: https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/
WordPress.org has complete documentation for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress.org at https://wordpress.org/support/ and support at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
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