URGENT!!! plz help me with this… about import and export

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    jelly829 · Member ·

    how do i move ONLY A PAGE AND THE COMMENTS IN THAT PAGE from a wordpress blog to another wordpress blog?

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Under manage > export you can export the all blog pages, posts and comments, as an XML file. You would then have to edit the XML file to remove what you did not want to export. There is no way to export only a single page and comments.

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    katm · Member ·

    Copy/paste?

    Seems to me that would be faster than exporting the xml, editing it and hoping it’s correct and then reimporting it.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    @katm
    I had thought of that, and yes, if there aren’t too many comments, that may be quicker. Comments would have to be put in one-by-one and you would have to enter the email addresses and such, and then edit them for date if you wanted to maintain the actual comment dates.

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Actually, if you copy/paste it keeps a remarkable amount of comment formatting. Look at this post of mine:

    would you watch Saddam Hussein die?

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    funtoosh2 · Member ·

    how bout copy/paste

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    honoursgirl · Member ·

    I’m confused about the XML file thingy. How’d you even get that XML file?

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is an import and export function for this purpose in your dashboard
    -> dashboard -> manage -> export -> wordpress

    (1) You can export the contents of your blog (posts, comments, categories) in the form of an xml file to your desktop and then import the xml file into the other blog site.

    (2) The blogroll links must be separately exported and re-categorized. That means you will have to re-assign them to each link but it’s better than copying and pasting those links yet again. :)

    “Quick note about the blogroll. The OPML format doesn’t support categories even though they’ll be there when you do the export. Best bet would be to assign the major category for them when you go to import them as you’re going to have to reassign them afterwards anyway.” (drmike on the wordpress.com forum)

    Blogroll- If you had links, you can export them out at
    http://mydomain.com/wp-links-opml.php (You must change “my domain” to your own url, of course.)

    Open that exported blogroll (links) xml file in a plain text editor like NotePad and save as a *.txt file. Be sure you are using a plain ext editor and then import the *.txt file you saved into your new blog at dashboard -> blogroll -> import Links.

    Important Note: The blogroll (links) xml file needs to be saved as a *.txt doc in a plain text editor like Notepad. This is because if you were to save it as a text rich text document using for example Microsoft Wordpad or Word (horrors!) those programs would add in all kinds of garbage like fonts and unusual html formatting code that mess will it up for what we’re doing here.

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