Importing TravelPod XML files

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  barbandpaultravelling · Member · May 20, 2017 at 7:11 pm

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  TravelPod is closing it’s doors and they have created an archive of my travel blogs in XML format which they say is ‘easy’ to import to WordPress. I have been trying for 2 days and still get an error message that won’t import the file.

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  garywbuck · Member · May 21, 2017 at 12:41 pm

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  Worked for me…what did I do?
  1. Moved everything out of the zip file into a normal windows folder
  2. In WordPress I got to the import window and didn’t do darg and drop. I clicked in the middle of the drag/drop window and it took me to the normal windows file selector.
  3. My id in TravelPod is buckgw…so I had to open the folder called buckgw. Inside that I had to open a folder called XML-WordPress…and inside that are 12 files for my 12 blogs.
  4. I clicked on buckgw.trip.1 and away it went

  I suspect you’ve clicked on the wrong file

  Good luck
  Gary

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  barbandpaultravelling · Member · May 21, 2017 at 1:20 pm

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  Thanks Gary, I will give this another try. I really miss TravelPod … it was so easy to use.

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  justjennifer · Member · May 21, 2017 at 2:33 pm

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  Hi there, Travelpod published a guide on moving your site to WordPressdotcom. Perhaps it will also help: http://www.travelpod.com/blog/2017/05/15/wordpress-import-intructions/

  And here are some resources that will help get you started on WordPressdotcom:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/start/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-tutorials
  https://learn.wordpress.com/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/blogging-university/blogging-fundamentals/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/help-with-wordpress-com/

  Let us know if you have any other questions. And Welcome to WordPressdotcom. :)