Importing from One Blog Site to Another
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I am trying to import from wordpress website ( https://lifeasachristianwomanhome.wordpress.com/ ) to another (https://rayoflight2020data.wordpress.com/). It is not importing anything. I did an export from the first and then did an import on the second and nothing happened.
I dont understand.
Any suggestions.
Thanks Raymond
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Hi Raymond,
Indeed, I don’t see the content from the first blog in the second one. Were you following these steps to import the content?
https://wordpress.com/support/import/Have you tried exporting the XML file again and importing that newly generated one?
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Hi Fresatomica,
Yes I have tried twice. I am doing it as recommended by the link you supplied.
Any suggestions on how I can narrow down what is going wrong.
I am not getting any error messages at all.
I would just like to import the posts only. You dont seem to be able export only the posts anymore.
Thanks
Raymond -
Hi, I made a mistake in my previous update. You can just export the posts only and did that and tried to upload and still not post added from my wife’s Blog to mine. It does not make sense.
Can I send you the XML file and for you to check if it is OK?
I did try a couple of years ago and had similar problems and gave up.
But I now want to consolidate all my blog sites.
Is there anyway of getting some diagnostic log via the WordPress experts to see if there is an error message?
Thanks In advance
Raymond Clements -
I see that the .xml file is somehow getting a .txt extension added to it, which makes it invalid.
Would you please try the export again, and make sure that it solely ends in .xml when you upload it?
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Hi,
The filename on my computer the filename is sarahsviewonchristianlife.wordpress.2020-06-26.post_type-post.001.xml
I dont know how the txt gets added or the xml gets taken away.
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Hmm. The “post_type-post.001.xml” has me curious; were you only exporting a certain type of posts?
Does the file have any content in it?
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Dear All,
Below is a link ONEDRIVE link to a wordpress folder with two files in it. One was meant to be the full export of the sarahsviewonchristianlife.wordpress and the other just posts. They both look the same to me. I have the same number of lines of XML in each.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgrO2WObGNg_hcIi1jqHKFcj-_ILLw?e=h1uGrD
I can do this the long way and go to each post and copy the text and then past into my site as a new post but that is going to take some time.Thanks for any help in solving this.
Raymond -
Hi there,
I can see if I can assist with the import, but I did notice that it is under a different account than the one you are contacting us from. Can you please post in this thread from under your other account to confirm ownership? Then, I’ll look further into this for you.
Thanks!
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Dear All,
Below is a link ONEDRIVE link to a wordpress folder with two files in it. One was meant to be the full export of the sarahsviewonchristianlife.wordpress and the other just posts. They both look the same to me. I have the same number of lines of XML in each.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgrO2WObGNg_hcIi1jqHKFcj-_ILLw?e=h1uGrD
I can do this the long way and go to each post and copy the text and then past into my site as a new post but that is going to take some time.Thanks for any help in solving this.
Raymond
PS I was asked to log this under my wifes username by darnelldibbles. -
Hi there,
Thank you for confirming the account. I want to clarify one thing before I try the import on this end. You want to transfer the content from https://lifeasachristianwomanhome.wordpress.com/ to https://rayoflight2020data.wordpress.com/ but the XML file has the name of
sarahsviewonchristianlife. Is that XML file of the same content that is coming from https://lifeasachristianwomanhome.wordpress.com/? -
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Hi Raymond,
I was able to import that file to https://rayoflight2020data.wordpress.com/ for you, and it’s now showing all the posts on that site for me.
Keep in mind that it’s not the best idea to have the same posts exist on multiple sites – search engines will see that as duplicate content, and end up penalising both sites in search results.
If you plan on continuing with two separate sites here, I’d recommend just sharing an except of the content on the second site, with a link back to the original, rather than importing or re-posting full posts on the second site.
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Hi
Thanks for importing the posts. I will deleting me wife’s site as we have decided to consolidate into one blog site.Can you tell me why there was a problem as I have a couple of other sites I want to import?
Once again thanks for all your effort and persistence and professionalism.
It really is appreciated.
Thanks Raymond
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Can you tell me why there was a problem as I have a couple of other sites I want to import?
I was able to import that file without any problems, so I don’t know what was causing a problem on your end.
If you run into the same problem with the files from the other sites, check if using a different browser helps – it could be that an add-on in your browser is preventing some of the code on the page from running.
If you specifically had trouble with uploading the file it could also be that the connection timed out, but as the file is only 142kb I find that very unlikely – even on a dial-up connection that size file should only take a few seconds to upload. But if possible, see if using a different internet connection helps at all.
Otherwise, let us know and we can investigate some more.
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Hi Kokkieh,
I have now tried to import one of my other blogs and it did not work. I tried Edge, Brave, Firefox and the same result. It starts with the processing symbol and then it does nothing.
I am running Windows 10 64bit with 16gb Ram and an SSD. I have fibre broadband with uploads speeds of up to 6Mbit per second which should be very fast.
The onedrive link below is to the same folder but with my christianrelated(christianrelatedinformation.wordpress.com) blog posts export files (2) and also my raymondchristianteaching (https://raymondclementssite.wordpress.com/) blog posts exports files (3).
I would like these imported into my rayofligth2020 blog site if possible. I will delete the old blogs after this is all done. I have already deleted my wifes blog site.https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgrO2WObGNg_hcIi1jqHKFcj-_ILLw?e=Jiuera
It is really strange that I cant get this to work. I am an IT professional of 30 years and have been working with WordPress a little and understand PC’s reasonable well.
Thanks for any help
Raymond Clements -
Ok, that’s a lot to import, so just to be absolutely 100% sure, you want all 5 files at https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ANY6hyhXI%5FvyCy8&id=3FD8189B63D9CE0A%2190402&cid=3FD8189B63D9CE0A imported into https://rayoflight2020.data.blog/ ?
It would be a lot to clean up if we did it wrong. :)
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Hi,
Yes I would like all 5 files imported. I will clean up what I need to.
Thanks
Raymond -
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