Workaround for FTP upload to wordpress.com blog
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Hi All,
I have a wordpress self-hosted blog that I made for my dad, that I would now like to move to a wordpress.com hosted setup so that I don’t have to administer it anymore (he’s moved to another car club, but we’d like the content to remain online for other members).I have FTP/phpmyadmin access on my end, but I’m not sure how to upload to the wordpress.com hosted location such that all the media links will work.
Right now, they’re organized by month and year, but if I upload via the media uploader that organization will be lost and none of the media links will work.
Thoughts?
Thanks for the help!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Read this first please http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
Then go to http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-from-wordpress-orgBottom line:There is no FTP access to WordPress.com blogs.You need an XML export file of the content which you can then import.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
The media files are attachments and you are prompted about including them or not when you import. -
Right now, they’re organized by month and year, but if I upload via the media uploader that organization will be lost and none of the media links will work.
Thoughts?There is no means of organizing our Media Library files in WordPress.com blogs into folders at all. What’s essential is that each file has a descriptive title the communicates the content because all we have is a searchbox and browsing ability.
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Okay, so this is saying that if I do the export and import via the internal wordpress import/export tools, the new install at mynewsite.wordpress.com will download all the media files from myoldselfhostedsite.com, and update the links so that everything works? In theory? :)
I just haven’t ever used the WordPress import/export feature, so I’m not totally sure what the capabilities are– I’ve been using myphpadmin to do it.
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I am saying that media attachments to posts and pages media can be imported. I’m not saying that the Media Library arrangement “Right now, they’re organized by month and year,” will remain the same at all. If that arrangement is critical then don’t do this.
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Got it. The organization isn’t critical, I just don’t want to update hundreds of image links by hand :)
Thanks for the help.
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I’m NOT guaranteeing that you won’t have to fix broken links either. When I did an import back here years ago I had hundreds of broken image links.I still have hundreds of images that do do not display when I type the actual name into the searchbox. I still have to use my memory and browse the Media Library to locate them.
NOTE: It’s important to know that the permalink structure on WordPress.com blogs with the date embedded into every post cannot be changed. If the self hosted blog permalinks are not the same structure issues will arise.
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