Moving my free wordpress.com over to wordpress.org
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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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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 thewordpress.phpfile towp-admin/import
in your regular blog, go to Import and click on wordpress.
browse to the *.WXR file on your desktop, and import! -
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,
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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.phpon your new blog, go to links > import opml, and add that url to the provided box.
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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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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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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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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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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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I downloaded the EXPORT file from my WP.com blog. But it is a .xml file… not a *.wxr file
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