Migrating WP blog to new website/domain host provider

Also, as a followup, whenever I successfully log into what seems like one of six hundred different sets of credentials to get into my WP pages (seriously, I’m completely confused about this and have to retain about four different sets of login credentials depending on what WP address I hit), there is one that says it can’t connect to the site, which is different from the admin address I gave above. So it’s like there’s actually two places to manage/monitor my one lone blog that I apparently need to surgically extract from my old Yahoo site and get it standing on its own two feet.

If I’m posting these questions in the wrong forum, please redirect me because there doesn’t seem to be a better place to do it. I use and have WP installed (as far as I know) on my iPhone, iPad, and can access it on my iMac via Safari. If there’s an actual WP app for the iMac, it’s late and I have either never seen it, or have forgotten.

Thanks for reading,
Mike

Hi,

It would be better if you can clarify me whether you have hosting or you just have a free blog at www.ads-software.com?

If you have hosting with your wix, you just need to download your wordpress files and database and upload it in your wix control panel to get your new domain working.

Hi and thanks for writing back.

I do have hosting; I have my own domain and now Wix manages it after I switched from Yahoo.

My website (I’m recreating it in Wix, though I hardly ever had any content so it never went live) is not up yet.

My blog is the only thing I ever used, and even then, sporadically. I found getting in to manage it through WP was generally fine…whenever I could log into WP (between the aforementioned credentials troubles and constant timeout errors, which I decided ultimately was a problem with Yahoo, not WP).

I do not have a free blog at WP; in fact, I have no URL that I can point anyone to that has anything to do with WP.

However, before the transfer, I did download two files onto my computer which supposedly allow me to import or recreate the blog in Wix. One was, I think, some kind of SQL dump; I did this from within the Yahoo small business web hosting control panel. The other is something I exported from WP, and inside that XML file, they have comments indicating the super-easy instructions on how to reimport the blog. I may give that a try to see just what happens, but the bottom line is that in the Wix configuration page, where you link a bunch of services(?) to URLs and IP addresses for DNS, etc., I still need to put something in that uniquely addresses where my blog lives. I don’t know what the arrangement was between WP and Yahoo, but if there is a way to get such a link to wherever my blog is floating around in the Internet space, this would definitely solve my problem.

Is the better option just to re-import the blog (I still want to use WP), or try to link it by obtaining some kind of free URL or IP address (which I can then point to in Wix as a subdomain, blog, etc.)?

Mike

Mike? Please do not create topics about your other topics. That duplicate has been deleted.

I will accept any official help from actual WP staff or superusers among the public community to get this resolved ASAP. Thanks very much for reading.

All of us here, including yourself is an unpaid support volunteer. There’s no “official” support people here.

I’ve read and re-read this whole topic and to be honest, I’m not sure what the problem is. Do you have hosting already for your WordPress site and is it resolvable in DNS?

At least I got some response from someone, which is a start.

The problem is that I can no longer access my blog after the switchover, and the only way I can get it back up and running over on my Wix site is to provide a DNS entry linking to the blog. Then I can swap it out for the entry that’s currently there pointing to some garbage entry on Yahoo. Who do I contact to get an address that’s valid to it? You see, I’ve never created a straight-up WP blog standing alone from my website, so I don’t have any sort of WP-based URL to use. That’s what I’m looking for. Who can provide it to me or how do I get one?

The problem is that I can no longer access my blog after the switchover

So you switched over to Wix and it’s working via the old DNS name at Wix?

Then I can swap it out for the entry that’s currently there pointing to some garbage entry on Yahoo. Who do I contact to get an address that’s valid to it?

If you were hosting your site on Yahoo you may need to contact them for your old data if it’s still available. No one here works for Yahoo.