migrating from wordpress.com to .org

  • Hi, I am migrating from WordPress.com to .org. I managed to export all my files from WordPress.com. I uploaded to my host’s (Blue Host’s) site temporarily. So I can see what it looks like before I name change the servers. I somehow managed to make the whole site look like the original one on www.ads-software.com. But lot of posts lost their layout. Some of the text moved around and started to look all jumbled up.

    You can view the posts on my temporary site here 66.147.244.132/~sohostre/
    Posts on the first page look ok but the problem arises starting with 2nd page. Can anyone please tell me why this is happening. And hopefully I will be able to fix it.

    Thank you,
    V.

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  • I’ve seen that be quite problematic – something about the file format does not seem to work – so I’d suggest using FTP.

    Sounds like you only made CSS changes – I was wondering about any .php files.

    For CSS changes, you can use a diffchecker to compare your file to the original file – and then move the changes to the new child theme style.css file…

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    Yup, you are right, I din’t make any changes to PHP files. It took me all night just to familiarize myself with CSS. Looks like PHP is another beast altogether.

    Phew, yes, .php is a whole other story (harder in my book ?? ). So you’ll be okay on the CSS – just a bit of fussing around and getting used to making the changes in the child theme – you basically use a browser tool like Firebug to find the code you want to change and copy that to the child theme style.css file and make the changes there. The child theme styles will override the parent styles (usually anyway..).

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    Oh Crap! now I have to learn how to use firebug!!!

    Yeah, but your life will improve immeasurably :). Firebug is truly a gift for CSS.

    Or, as esmi pointed out, a CSS plugin ??

    This may be a more palatable option for those just wanting to tweak the CSS. I had never used one until reading this thread, so I gave https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/pc-custom-css/ a try and man, that’s going in my WP toolbox! … too easy ??

    Thread Starter vannapragal

    (@vannapragal)

    that is if I don’t have anything else to learn after firebug… I have to figure out child theme, customCSS plugin, diffchecker, learn how to make duplicate css file and ftp to server.

    I just uninstalled the existing wordpress on the server. So I have to start over with the reinstall of that. And import my database.

    If you have a child theme, no need to use the custom CSS plugin. You only need one or the other – so if you only want to make CSS changes, go with the plugin. But you may well want other .php file changes later on, so the child theme would cover that possibility too.

    I know it’s a lot of new stuff…but just take it one step at a time… :).

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