importing wordpress blog

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  jacktavares · Member · Dec 8, 2020 at 11:17 pm

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  I have an very old blog hosted elsewhere. I exported the XML, and tried to import it here and recvd an error that the xml file contained no authors.

  I cannot upgrade the blog on the other site, since it is shutting down and the admins won’t upgrade the version of php, and thus wordpress will not upgrade.
  I also have full backup of the sql db.

  Since that site is shutting down, I really want to get it up and running somewhere for archival purposes.
  Can you help?

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 9, 2020 at 2:31 am

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  Hi there,

  We’re processing your import now from our end, and will send you an email when it’s all done. If you don’t hear from us within 24 hours, please let us know!

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  jacktavares · Member · Dec 9, 2020 at 6:04 pm

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  That is great!
  I have 2 blogs hosted at cairochronicles.
  It looks like you imported http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack, and it looks great.
  Can you also do http://www.cairochronicles.com/kaddee?

  Thanks

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 10, 2020 at 12:50 am

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  Hi there,

  To clarify, I ran my internal import based on the export file you uploaded, which apparently only had content for http://www.cairochronicles.com/jack

  Are you able to create a fresh export file for http://www.cairochronicles.com/kaddee as well? Please download that .XML file to your computer and save it as a .ZIP file. Once it is in .ZIP format, please upload it here: https://cairochronicles.wordpress.com/wp-admin/media-new.php

  Once it is uploaded to your site, let us know and we can retrieve it, and run the import on our end. Hope this helps!

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  jacktavares · Member · Dec 10, 2020 at 4:08 am

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  I tried to upload it as a zip file to media, but it said that file type is disabled.

  I then tried to import it, but that failed (as expected) but it did upload the file.
  It is listed as a .txt file
  https://cairochronicles.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/wordpress-kaddee.2020-11-23.xml_-1.txt
  in the media tab

  Please let me know if I misunderstood or if there is anything else I should do.

  Thank you again.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 10, 2020 at 6:36 am

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  I tried to upload it as a zip file to media, but it said that file type is disabled.

  You need to be on a paid plan to upload .zip files to the media library. But we can use the .txt file by just changing the file extension back to .xml.

  I’ve now imported that file to your site as well. Let us know if anything still appears to be missing.