Moving a blog to WordPress.com

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  surooralikhan · Member · Jan 29, 2015 at 6:06 pm

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  I have a blog on blog.com. I want to move it to WordPress. How do I do it?

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  surooralikhan · Member · Jan 29, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  I want to move my entire blog from blog.com with the old posts to a new blog on WordPress.com. I’ve looked online, but can’t find any instructions for blog.com. Can anyone help?

  Thanks!

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 29, 2015 at 10:02 pm

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  Does it have an RSS feed or Export function? If you cannot create an XML file, you are going to have to do this by Copy/Paste. http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/ Read through the various options and see if Blog.com is similar to one of those.

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  surooralikhan · Member · Jan 31, 2015 at 3:14 pm

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  Thanks, raincoaster. I can’t get the RSS feed to work. I’ve been having trouble logging in for several days–that’s why I’m moving my blog out–but when I can get in, I’ll try and import it. I did look at the link you sent and blog.com isn’t on that list.

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  surooralikhan · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 8:34 am

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  I did finally manage to get in and export the blog into an XML file. I then tried to import the XML file into WordPress using the Blogger.com option since it allowed me to import a file from my computer. I got a message saying the system was importing the file, and then nothing. Not sure what I did wrong. I really want to avoid copying and pasting the items.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 8:41 am

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  I’ll flag this for staff help. You might be able to email them the file and they can get it working.

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  surooralikhan · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 9:30 am

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  Thanks! Much appreciated.

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 1:18 pm

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  @surooralikhan

  Could you try one more time using the import from WordPress option?

  If that doesn’t work I’ll send you a private e-mail so you can send me the file.

  Thanks!

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  surooralikhan · Member · Feb 9, 2015 at 3:34 pm

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  Thanks for replying! I’ll try the WordPress option tomorrow–the file is on my home computer and I’m at work–and let you know.

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  surooralikhan · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 3:20 pm

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  It worked! Thanks for your help.

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  lizthefair · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 3:55 pm

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  Wonderful! Thanks for letting me know.