uploading old blog posts saved as html in explorer

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  idrathernotsay123 · Member · Dec 23, 2007 at 10:17 pm

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  I had a blog for a few years on a server that used an older version of WordPress software. The server suffered a major hacker attack, so I began a new version of the blog directly at wordpress. However, I am trying to get all of my old posts back onto the new blog.

  The posts and their comments were all saved via Internet Explorer on a CD as MHTML files. I can read them using Explorer–they have retained the look of a WordPress blog–however, I would like to simply upload them en masse to the new blog.

  Is there any way they can be converted into WordPress export file or WXR file and simply uploaded?

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  katm · Member · Dec 23, 2007 at 11:32 pm

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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

  See if the section on editing helps at all.

  Alternatively, can they be opened in a text editor to view the raw html? If so, you can copy/paste it into the code view of the editor here. But because you were self hosted before you might have stuff in there that will get stripped out here (javascript/flash/iframes/embeds).

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  katm · Member · Dec 23, 2007 at 11:33 pm

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  Oh. Unfortunately, that will only work on a post by post basis, so if you have a lot of posts…. well, YMMV.