Moving my free wordpress.com over to wordpress.org

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  xxxmiavixen · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 2:05 pm

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  Hello

  I would like to know how can I move or import or export my free hosted blog over to my
  regular blog with losing anything. I been searching and searching and can not find
  anything. Can someone help with this.

  Thanks

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 2:12 pm

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  in your wordpress.com dashboard, go to Manage > Export.
  download that *.WXR file to your desktop.
  after you install wordpress (see instructions on wordpress.org),
  go download the wordpress migration tool
  and add the wordpress.php file to wp-admin/import
  in your regular blog, go to Import and click on wordpress.
  browse to the *.WXR file on your desktop, and import!

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  drmike · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 2:42 pm

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  While the links are in the XML file, they appear not to be importing. You can grab them in what’s called an OPML file at:

  http(colon)//myblog.tld/wp-links-opml.php

  This will give you an OPML file that you can import on your Blogroll page here.

  Hope this helps,
  -drmike

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 2:48 pm

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  slick trick there, drmike. didn’t know about that one.

  however, for moving from wordpress.com to a hosted blog, you want
  http://xxxmiavixen.wordpress.com/wp-links-opml.php

  on your new blog, go to links > import opml, and add that url to the provided box.

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  drmike · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 2:52 pm

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  *chuckle* My one and only WordPress ticket

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  timethief · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 7:47 pm

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  @drmike
  What do you think about asking Podz to include these importing tips in the FAQs section he created called “Wider Issues”?

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  drmike · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 8:08 pm

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  I just rather see it fixed or covered.

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  podz · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 8:09 pm

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  As we get more tips about this I certainly do intend creating some sort of resource for people to use :)

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 8:09 pm

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  these tips will change substantially when 2.1 comes out (end of august, IIRC). and presumably they’ll fix mike’s trac ticket. (links not importing properly, though, is more a symptom of the aging blogroll setup in .org blogs, versus the system used by 2.1 and .com blogs)

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  drmike · Member · Aug 2, 2006 at 8:10 pm

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  IIRC, WPMU (both here and the downloadable version) runs 2.1 code.

  The issue was actually discovered on a WPMU setup.

  For 2.0 setups, we just do a OPML reader on teh site in question.

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  adilnajam · Member · Sep 1, 2006 at 3:02 pm

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  I am ready to move my WP.com blog to a hosted service using WP.org.

  1. Is there a way so that anyone coming to the old WP.com address is automatically redirected to the new address?
  2. I want the old blog to MOVE rather than its content be added to teh ‘dummy’ entries I have been playing with on WP.org as I redesigned teh page?

  Any tips?

  thanks

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  drmike · Member · Sep 1, 2006 at 3:39 pm

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  1) No, best bet would be to add it a link to you new site.

  2) I don’t understand what the question is.

  You may want to do a search for ‘move’ or ‘moving.’ We’ve been discussing this topic quite a few times recently.

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  adilnajam · Member · Sep 1, 2006 at 4:23 pm

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  I downloaded the EXPORT file from my WP.com blog. But it is a .xml file… not a *.wxr file

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  drmike · Member · Sep 1, 2006 at 4:57 pm

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  That’s what it’s supposed to be. WXR is layout that they’re using.