The Easy Way To Move A WordPress Blog
September 16th in Tutorials, WordPress by Nina Krimly .After conducting a little research on how to move an old Wordpress blog to a new website. This tutorial will probably take about a maximum of 5-10 minutes of your time.
To start off, I highly recommend you go to your old WordPress and delete posts, tags, comments, authors or even pages that you no longer need on your new website… The reason for this will be discussed further below.
Now, you need to have WordPress installed on your new site. Then log on to your old WordPress admin, and go to TOOLS >> EXPORT.
Here, you can restrict your WordPress to one or all authors (meaning: Do you want your posts only or do you want posts from all your authors). Then click “Download Export File”, this export file is in WXR format (WordPress extended RSS) which will include all the information needed for your new WordPress to import the old WordPress. Make sure you know where you saved this file, because you will need it later on.
Now log on to your new WordPress admin, and click on TOOLS >> IMPORT >> and choose “WordPress”.
As you can see above, the import file is restricted by a size limit of 12MB, which is why I recommended you delete all the stuff you didn’t need on your new site.
After the file is uploaded, WordPress will give you the option to create new users/ authors of which you have had before. Or you can simply “map to an existing user”, which means all the posts will be mapped to your selected user.
Also, make sure you selected the box that says “download and import file attachments”.
And that’s about it, “Have fun!” with your WordPress (new and old)!
September 16, 2009
Awesome tips! This is exactly the way I move blogs from one domain to a subdomain and so-forth.
September 17, 2009
Hi,
yes thats the easiest way and I use it often.
But there is a little bug. If you have threaded comments activated they will be destroyed at the new blog. I explained it on my German blog and there is also a fix for the problem.
Perhaps this info will help some people. :)
September 18, 2009
Thanks a lot for the help, though I couldn’t understand the blog!
September 17, 2009
yeah, it is the major attraction really, but there’s also so many more attractions there. There’s lots of shops and stuff, it’s really nice. I’m not sure if it’s the same on the USA side though.
hm, this is very useful :) also very easy to understand
September 18, 2009
Glad to hear it :)
September 18, 2009
I think the downside to this tutorial is the fact that there is a limit! :(
Now here’s hoping I won’t have to move when my files are already huge. :)
I hope you get a better ISP soon. It’s terrible if you have to live with it for a while.
September 18, 2009
Wow well that is very informative, actually it will help me out a lot if and when I need to change WordPress installations for people.
September 19, 2009
This is so handy. This has been bookmarked for any time I need to back up files or move sites or anything :3 Thanks!
September 21, 2009
Glad it helps out :D
September 20, 2009
Yeah, they are interesting classes, I guess ! :D
(= I don’t remember what I did on Labor Day too, now. LMAO ! {:
November 26, 2009
Awesome, I didn’t know about that up to now. Thanks!
February 16, 2010
Great tut, this is what saved our site a few weeks ago. It’s also good to note that you need to do a backup and transfer of your images and other content to the same directory on the new blog.
February 17, 2010
Thanks a lot, and you have a very important point there.