Files are imported: Now what?

  • adunate

    (@adunate)


    17 years ago

    I exported my blog from WordPress.com. It’s not that large, only eight posts, eleven catagories, images for each post, and one about page. I imported the xml file into my new WordPress blog, which is hosted.

    I can see the import is there in Upload but nothing else. Does this automatically transfer into posts, complete with the theme, images, catagories and content? Or am I supposed to do something to make this happen? If so, what?

    I’m sure these are dumb questions that are easily answered, but I’m just not seeing anything here.

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  • Thread Starter adunate

    (@adunate)

    OK, I’ll answer my own question. That’s always great when you can do that!

    After further research and days of trying to load my imported posts, I read that images cannot be imported. What I thought was imported, really was not.

    I went into my old blog and deleted the images, both from the posts and from the uploads. After doing that, the files came through fine.

    goldberry00

    (@goldberry00)

    Adunate,

    Did that import your theme to? I’d like to import the posts/categories from my old blog, but NOT the theme. So I don’t want to go ahead and import the stuff if it’s going to save over my new theme.

    rycar

    (@rycar)

    You’ll be fine Goldberry.

    Themes are handled entirely separatley from posts, categories, etc (which stay put in a database) and can be swapped out at your discretion

    michael-edwards

    (@michael-edwards)

    I just uploaded all my old blog (exported from movable type) as a file which I named “import.txt” following advice on the WP documentation site.

    The file is now where the advice told me to out it – in a folder called /wp-admin/

    But the advice after that has lost me. It asks me to edit a file which does not exist….any suggestions anyone????

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