What is the best way to copy content from one blog to another?
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I am finally working on building my new blog, leaving my current one up and running while I work on the new one behind closed doors, as it were.
I have some content on my current blog that I want to copy to my new blog. What I am doing right now is the copy / paste method: I copy the post in my current blog through dashboard. Then I have to log out each time so I can log into the dashboard for my new blog and then I hit “New Post” and paste into that.
This is a very tedious process and I have lots of copying to do. I am wondering if there is a quicker way to do this. I tried having both blog dashboards open at the same time and that doesn’t work. Both are under the same account.So is there a quicker, less tedious way of doing this? If not, I’ll continue the current way I am doing it. I was just wondering if there was a better way.
Thank you
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No thank you. While it is good to have copies of content, I just copy my articles to Word or something as back up (without graphics).
The export function is not compatible for what I need anyway. I am not copying everything over and the formats are different anyway. -
Are you clear on the fact that Microsoft WORD is not a web publishing tool? It is a little less than ideal and produces very messy HTML. See here please https://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/
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Yes, I am painfully aware of that and I only use it for “backup” of text, but what else can I use for “backup”? When it comes to “backup” I’m more worried about the text, than I am graphics. So if I ever needed to retrieve some article I wrote, I simply pull it up in Word and copy the text and paste it in a post and edit from there.
Back on topic, I’m asking about copying posts to a different blog and just wondering if there is a more efficient way of doing it then how i am currently doing it = logging into my current active blog, going to editor, copying the post I want, logging out, then logging into the dashboard for my new blog, pasting what I copied in there, log back out and repeat.
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Hi,
I hope you folks don’t mind me adding to this thread :)
Using the WordPress Export and Import functions would be the most efficient way to achieve what you’re looking for.
When you say:
“The export function is not compatible for what I need anyway. I am not copying everything over and the formats are different anyway.”
There is a way to export only the content you need eg the posts with your articles via the Export Selected Content button. You can read about this here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
This may give you a little more than you need but at least you can then import all your content to your new site, and have them there ready to edit instead of needing to go back and forth logging in and out etc. https://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
Hope this helps :)
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Hi Catkiinson,
Will this put everything in draft postings individually as I have them or is one big file I have to try to sort out?
It says something about the images and media not being exported over and would have to be done manually. Is there a method to that?
When I manually copy a post/article that has pictures, it does copy those as well, but it does not put them in the media library. I think this pertains to my question about exporting the media.
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Hi anonesmithe,
“Will this put everything in draft postings individually as I have them or is one big file I have to try to sort out?”
When you export your selected content, you will receive a link to it. This link will contain a download of a .zip file containing any export files. When importing back into another blog, you’ll need to unzip the file, and import each of the .xml files individually: https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
It says something about the images and media not being exported over and would have to be done manually. Is there a method to that?
Media libraries from WordPress.COM sites cannot be exported.
Hope this helps :)
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This may be better than the way I am currently doing this or at least more efficient.
That said though I want to make sure of a couple of things before I try it:
1) Does this function “Copy” or “Move”. I don’t want to do the export and then find that my current blog is empty afterwards.2) I see it does not copy media, which for the most part is ok because all the pics and everything but videos are on my local drive. My question is though does the export only copy text? My articles have at least one picture to many pictures and some have videos, so would the whole article including pics and videos export intact?
Thank you
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Hi anonsmithe,
1) It will only Copy your selected content.
2) I believe it will only be text. However, the support document does say “uploads and images may need to be manually transferred to the new blog.” https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
To see how it works for you, I would chose to export “Selected Content” and be very specific to target a small amount of data. Upload it to your new site and if you’re happy with that result, go back and “Select All” content.
Hope this helps :)
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1) It will only Copy your selected content.
2) I believe it will only be text. However, the support document does say “uploads and images may need to be manually transferred to the new blog.” https://en.support.wordpress.com/export/
To see how it works for you, I would chose to export “Selected Content” and be very specific to target a small amount of data. Upload it to your new site and if you’re happy with that result, go back and “Select All” content.
Yes, the instructions kind of have it both ways, it says it will export your posts, pages, comments, categories and tags. That could mean embedded pictures and such or not. It also says images MAY need to be manually transferred to the new blog.
I don’t want categories copied over, but I assume it means the categories I assigned to the posts. If so, I can always change those.Yes, your idea of a test run is good. I’ll do one post and see how it goes.
Like I said, if this is not going to work for me, I will just continue to do it the extra tedious way, one at a time. It may take me 6 months (or maybe 12), to do it, but it beats trying to rewrite everything I already wrote and then I can add new stuff.
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Ok, this did not work. However, it did reveal that my new site, even though private and not launched has been hacked! When I went to import what I selected in “export” it said I have multiple authors on my new site! That is impossible….unless it has been hacked or something. I don’t know the names it showed. So seeing that I applied the breaks hard.
I am thinking perhaps it is better to do it the way I was and let it take 12 months if need be.
I have another question. I noticed I can manage both my sites from the same login to the dashboard. So I am wondering if I even need to log out of one and back in the other since it is the same login. Is it possible to copy a post from my current active blog and then go to “My Sites” or whatever it is and switch to the new one within the dashboard and paste what I copied?
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Ok, just tried that “switch” idea again and it does not work. Once you switch, you can not switch back. I’m thinking it could be because my new site is private and inactive right now, I don’t know.
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Back to logging in and out for me I guess. It seems the only way to do what I want to do.
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Hi there,
Can you please let me know the addresses of both your sites to check if they’re indeed under the same WordPress.com account?
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Yes, one is my current active one: https://itsaboutthemusicblog.wordpress.com/
The other is my new one I am building (not yet active and private): https://musicandmindfullness.wordpress.com.They should be both under my one account. I use the same login to access both dashboards (or the one dashboard or however it works). There is also a third domain there as well that I am just holding in reserve for reasons I don’t even know yet.
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Both sites are under the same WordPress.com account, therefore, you can switch between them without logging off and on all the time.
However, you can’t see the Switch Site option because musicandmindfullness.wordpress.com is hidden from your dashboard (has nothing to do with the fact that it’s private).
To add to your “quick switch” list you need to go to the My Blogs page in WP Admin, hover over your site and select Make Visible. Here’s a quick link:
https://itsaboutthemusicblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=my-blogs&show=hidden
and here’s a screenshot to make things easier:
Let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you. I’m happy to help.
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