Importing posts from old blog to new blog

  • We have an old WordPress blog (V2.3.1) and a new WordPress blog (V3.6).
    Both blogs have posts.
    What we need to do is import all of the old posts from the V2.3.1 blog into the V3.6 blog.

    All of the articles I’ve found so far cover migrating to a new, empty blog, not into a blog that already has content.

    I have full access to to both blogs via WordPress admin pages and to their databases via phpMyAdmin.

    Suggestions?

    Thanks in advance,

    Dave

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  • I don’t think you have much chance of importing 2.3 posts into a 3.6 site! I’ve just been helping someone out who couldn’t do this using a WordPress 2.9 site – the issue being that the database changes have been huge since 2.3 – 2.9.

    I suggest you upgrade your 2.3 blog. As you have such an old version of WordPress, you will need to carry out a series of smaller manual upgrades. See Upgrading_WordPress_Extended for the full details. Once the old blog is using 3.6, you will be able to export the posts and import them into the new site.

    Thread Starter vaxace

    (@vaxace)

    One of the main reasons we didn’t upgrade the old blog is all of the steps it would take to do it.

    A couple of questions:
    – How many tables are involved in a single post?
    – Is there an API method for procedurally creating a new post?

    I am a long-time PHP/MySQL developer. I just don’t have a lot of WordPress development experience. I’m thinking I might be able to write a script to do the migration for me (we’re talking almost 5,000 posts).

    Thanks.

    – How many tables are involved in a single post?

    Impossible to say. At least 8, I think. Possibly more if you are using plugins.

    Is there an API method for procedurally creating a new post?

    No.

    Thread Starter vaxace

    (@vaxace)

    Thanks for the info.

    Guess I’ll take a look at the schema and the actual data and see what it would take to migrate the data.

    D.

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