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ellaella on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

ellaella — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:07:35 +0000

You're very welcome. Happy blogging.

monnibo on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

monnibo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:06:44 +0000

Thanks for your help! I'll poke around in my dashboard and see if I can make this easier on myself. Thanks again.

ellaella on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

ellaella — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:06:42 +0000

Speaking of widgets, most of the ones you're familiar with here will be available. Your "behind the scenes" experience will be almost identical. (I'm going through this right now with one of my blogs.)

ellaella on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

ellaella — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:04:44 +0000

You would have a new theme. I've already forgotten which one you use, but it's likely available at .org or a similar one. Your text, links and blogroll can be exported. Widgets would have to be rebuilt and images transferred manually. There might be a limit but I doubt you're anywhere near it. I've read of huge export files here.

btw, those dogs are darn cute!

monnibo on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

monnibo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:57:38 +0000

Actually I've got almost 3 years of posts that I've imported from other blogs. Can I export them all in one go or is there a limit?

monnibo on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

monnibo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:56:26 +0000

Is there any way to easily export my layout though? All my widgets and such? And the images in my posts?

ellaella on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

ellaella — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:24 +0000

Earlier is better than later, you're absolutely right, and since your page rank is 0 and you've only got a few months of posts, you probably won't feel as much Google pain as a more established blogger.

It's a simple matter of hiring a host and using the export function in your dashboard to export your posts and import them into the new blog. The hosts featured at http://wordpress.org offer "1-click" setups, in that your WordPress software will be installed without any downloading or uploading on your part.

monnibo on "Moving from .com to .org on personal domain"

monnibo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:44:09 +0000

I was wondering if there is an easy way to move my WordPress blog, hosted at the .com to my Personal domain using WordPress.org. I've installed it and I'm playing with it, but if possible I don't want to have to do everything again!

sulz on "Using/Changing Post IDs"

sulz — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:07:32 +0000

yes, all the posts in your blog are counted.

monnibo on "Using/Changing Post IDs"

monnibo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:49:02 +0000

Does this include imported posts too?

monnibo on "Using/Changing Post IDs"

monnibo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:38:54 +0000

Thank you!

sulz on "Using/Changing Post IDs"

sulz — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:31:56 +0000

to view the number of posts you have, go to blog stats and scroll to the bottom. look to the left side, it will show the number of posts you have.

monnibo on "Using/Changing Post IDs"

monnibo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:15:15 +0000

I imported posts from my other blog (which went fine) but there were about 200 posts in there and now they have the IDs of 1 - 200. My WordPress.com Blog that I imported into already had a few hundred posts...

I was using the IDs to count how many posts I'd made, but now this has been thrown off. Is there a way to manually (or easily) change the Post IDs? Or (even better) how do I get a "post count"?

vistairan on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

vistairan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:13:46 +0000

Dear drmike, actually the http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3712 that you mentioned helped me to solve my problem. Also I noticed that the bug fix is apparently in the queue, for the next releases.

Thanks for your support.

drmike on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

drmike — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:45:40 +0000

But I think the issue of importing from a file shall be fixed in future.

Agreed but you're preaching to the choir. Did you send in a feedback like was suggested pointing them to the open trac ticket?

timethief on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

timethief — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:28:43 +0000

Thanks for returning and letting us know how you sorted this.
On my behalf, you're welcome. :)

drmike will get back to you when he's online tomorrow.

vistairan on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

vistairan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:41:52 +0000

Thanks! I finally uploaded the links to my host and used the HTTP import. It worked fine. But I think the issue of importing from a file shall be fixed in future.

Thanks all.

drmike on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

drmike — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:42:39 +0000

Known issue: trac ticket

Feel free to point thta out to staff when you send in a feedback.

timethief on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

timethief — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:55:13 +0000

I'm sorry this didn't go smoothly for you. :( It looks like you're going to need help to sort this so it's feedback time.

vistairan on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

vistairan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:50:19 +0000

Thanks for the cool info. I managed to save my OPML file successfully and I DID used notepad, to avoid any unwanted hidden/unhidden characters. But still when I try to import the locally saved .txt file from the link manager IMPORT option, I get the following error:
<<
Importing...
XML error: no element found at line 1

Inserted 0 links into category 2. All done! Go manage those links.
>>

The content of the file is also like this ( I kept only one link here):

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<opml version="1.0">
<head>
<title>Links for Z-LOGS</title>
<dateCreated>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:38:54 GMT</dateCreated>
</head>
<body>
<outline type="category" title="Blogroll">
<outline text=""H" wants To Learn English" type="link" xmlUrl="" htmlUrl="http://henimili.blog.com" updated="" />
</outline>
</body>
</opml>

timethief on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

timethief — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:43:13 +0000

Blogroll- you can export your blogroll links out at
`http://mydomain.tld/wp-links-opml.php’ (You must change “my domain.tld” to your own url, of course.)

Open that exported blogroll (links) xml file in a plain text editor like NotePad and save as a *.txt file. Be sure you are using a plain ext editor and then import the *.txt file you saved into your new blog at dashboard -> blogroll -> import Links.

Important Note: The blogroll (links) xml file needs to be saved as a *.txt doc in a plain text editor like Notepad. This is because if you were to save it as a text rich text document using for example Microsoft Wordpad or Word (horrors!) those programs would add in all kinds of garbage like fonts and unusual html formatting code that mess will it up for what you’re doing here.

vistairan on "Export Blogroll from my blog which is hosted at wordpress.com"

vistairan — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:40:54 +0000

I have a weblog hosted by wordpress.com. Now I am moving to my own domain and I want to export everything into my new wordpress weblog (hosted by myself). I exported/imported entries, comments and post categories. However the blogroll, links and link categories are not exported.

I have read about OPML files and also found some plugins in the net to allow me to export blogroll from a wordpress account, but they all require full control over the account. Can I do the same over my limited xxxx.wordpress.com weblog?