jpaston

Thank you so much for this. I was about to tear my hair out thinking that I’d have to copy and paste each post into my new blog when I found this solution.

Just open the exported xml file in Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac) and paste the line

<wp:wxr_version>1.1</wp:wxr_version>

at the top of the file. Leave everything else intact.

One other note is that it is worth exporting content for each author, if you have multiple authors, and import them separately. That worked better for me – the ‘ALL’ authors export didn’t seem to grab all the posts.

All resolved, thanks to Jetpack support at WordPress.com

They found that there was intermittent public access to my sites and suggested I look at the DNS.

There was a failure on one of the Nameservers on my hosting account which Hostgator resolved.

All is now working as it should.

If you see this ‘Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack’ then check your DNS settings are working correctly by contacting your webhosting service.

I’ve just been updating my sites, replacing WP Stats with Jetpack.

From the sites that are on one of my Hostgator servers, all the .com sites connect perfectly. The .net and .info sites refuse to connect with the error:
Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack:
Error Details: The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [IXR -32300].

I’ve disabled all caches and tried the php fix above, but to no avail. Any other suggestions?