Transferring self-hosted blog to wordpress.com
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I am trying to transfer my wordpress.org self-hosted blog to a wordpress.com site and I can’t seem to upload it. It’s quite large and I don’t know if the size is making it time out or what. Is there a size limit? Has anyone had this issue? It just never fully uploads.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The URL will be very helpful, provided the site you exported from is still online.
Where are you importing from?
Is that site still online?
What size is the XML file, please?Sometimes the importer gets stuck.
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The site is still online – lifeupdated.net.
The xml file is 14.2 mb.
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Hi @leebecknell, it seems your files had a .txt extension which was throwing the importer off, and very large imports can time out, too. I’m going to see if I can try again with the file we have & will let you know when that’s done.
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No worries. And I’ll let you know when that’s done. Usually when we see exports that large, they’re full of spam comments. Yours just has a lot of content. I should be done soon. :) We’re glad you’re here!
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Hi @leebecknell, you’re all set. :) Have a look to ensure all of your posts and media items are there (numbers should match your old site) but I didn’t get any errors this time, so it seems to have all gone through. Let us know if you need more help!
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