Lost all of my blog posts when changing domain

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  charcatcrafter · Member · Mar 21, 2019 at 8:41 pm

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  Help!

  I’ve just changed my domain to squarespace and I thought I would have time to go through old blog posts and copy them over but I just logged in and they wont display, it says that there are 346 posts but I can’t see any of them. Is there anyway to access them or are they lost forever?

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  neverbenn · Member · Mar 21, 2019 at 8:56 pm

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  Hi @charcatcrafter!

  Even though you changed your domain, if your site was created here on WordPress.com, your content should still be accessible by visiting yoursite.wordpress.com (since your custom domain is now pointing at the Squarespace site).

  If this is the case, you can export the content that still lives here, and then import it into Squarespace. Again, this assumes your website lived on WordPress.com (not a self-hosted WordPress.org install). For help with a self-hosted install, check out the WordPress.org forums.

  Basic export instructions: Make sure you are logged in, then click “My Sites” up in the top left corner (black bar). If you have multiple sites, select the site you need to export. If not, it’ll take you straight to your admin. Click on “Settings” near the bottom of your sidebar, scroll all the way down to “Export.” You can export posts, comments, even your media library. (Shortcut here if you don’t want to go through the menu steps ;) https://wordpress.com/settings/export/)

  Squarespace has a support doc on importing WordPress XML files: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206543957-Importing-content-from-WordPress

  Hope this helps! Let me know how it goes!