Importing WordPress Blog

  • Chalk it up to rookie mistake, but I was installing a custom theme/child theme design and content to a friend’s site that I designed myself. I had a private subdomain on my website where I uploaded the theme I designed and added her content so she could click around and check it out before it was final. Not thinking through, I exported it from my subdomain thinking that was a quick and easy shortcut and then uploaded it to her website via the import tool. As you can guess, everything ran smoothly until I went back to my subdomain and began making changes and clearing things out. These changes reflected on her website because of the linked import (I assume). Not all was lost and I was able to go back in, upload the media in her website, and relink some images and fix the css. But it did cause some things to go wrong and a bit of a headache. I am worried that if I delete my sub domain or make any further changes to it, more errors will occur on her website. Is there anything I can do to safely un-link the sites?
    Hopefully that makes sense!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Imports aren’t linked that way, it’s just an XML file that dumps into the destination blog, there is absolutely no connection.

    My best guess is that perhaps you were accidentally editing in her blog at the time.

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