I know there are quite a lot of folks who have wanted to merge WordPress blogs or in one way or another import from one blog into another. The feature is coming in the next major build of WordPress and is already in place on WordPress.com blog. Trust me. But for now, I have wrapped that code into a plugin. I’ve already merged two blogs and there are other reasons I need this as well. It works. I have not had a lot of other extensive testing, but for me it works.
So while Matt Mullenweg wrote most of this code, I’ve ripped it off and made it into a plugin for those of us not running bleeding-edge next-gen WordPress blogs.
The exporter pumps a WordPress blog (including comments) out to a WXR file (WordPress eXtended RSS). It will allow you to import blog entries and comments into an existing WordPress blog. It does not overwrite existing entries and it respects authors by giving you the ability to choose who the imported entries are attributed to.
To use it, download the zip (7.6k) or tarball (6.8k) and extract.
- Upload
wp-xmlmigrate.phptowp-content/plugins/ - Upload
wordpress.phptowp-admin/import/ - Activate the plugin.
Note: Both of these files are optional. Uploading wp-xmlmigrate.php and activating will only provide the ability to Export a WordPress blog via the Manage > WP Export menu. Uploading wordpress.php will allow you to import an existing WXR file (a dump from another blog). This file is actually an importer, not a plugin, and so activation is not required to use it. Access the Import mechanism through the standard WordPress Import menu.
Really, the credit goes to Matt Mullenweg for 90% of the code.
Changelog
1.0
- Initial Release
1.0.1
- Minor PHP fixes
1.0.2
- Fixes Version check error when migrating from a WP 1.5.x blog
2.0 - Nov 15, 2006
- Rewrite of codebase
- Fixes “dirty” XML export
- Add support for Category Exports
- Adds support in Export for “Excerpts”. Does not fix weakness in wordpress Importer that does not import excerpts.
2.0.1 - Dec 5, 2006
- No Fixes to export
- Now bundled with new Automattic-developed wordpress.php import file
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About the Author: Aaron Brazell is the lead editor of Technosailor.com and a social media expert. His passion is to see companies and individuals use the internet and web technologies wisely and effectively to promote their brands and companies. He is the Director of Technology at b5media and is available for consulting.
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Schweeeeet. I’m wanting to do some merging, too. This is perfect. It’s like there’s a force of attraction at work here.
Hope it works out well for you, patrick.
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Great idea! I would like to ask you something before trying it out: what happens with blogs that use format plugins on posts like Textile, Markdown, etc.? The export gets the “source” of the post (that is, using the plugin’s format) or the processed code (XHTML output)?
Great work!
Felipe–
Textile and MArkdown are both plugins. Therefore they are filters of the_post(). If you look in the database at the raw entry, it will have all the textile/markdown markup. It’s not formatted there. When the_content() is called and filtered on Markdown or Textile, the formatting comes through.
That being the case, if you import a WordPress blog that has been using Textile/Markdown, you’ll be pulling in the raw content that is unformatted. To preserve the formatting, the new blog will have to have Textile or Markdown enabled as well.
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Just leaving a note of gratitude. I’ve been putting off this sort of thing for lack of knowledge and a burning desire to surf for it. The plugin made it a snap. Much appreciate Sir.
And I couldn’t help but notice The Wire: Season 1 peeking at me from below. Great, great show. First class all around in my opinion. McNulty man.
Just wanted to say a big thank you for this plugin, it’s been a great help in setting up a test site for me, so I can play about with themes before they go live!
Even for just a few posts to test, this plugin in invaluble!
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Hi,
I’ve just tried to import my old wordpress blog into wordpress.com . Sadly it says
Sorry, there has been an error.
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.
The file is about 2.1mb. Is there any way I can chop the file?
regards,
Steven
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I’ve just used the plugin to import roughly 180 posts, 320 comments, 30 categories and 8 authors. Wordpress was just becoming a bit of a hassle - wordpress.com is so much easier. You can concentrate on writing for a change.
Worked without a hitch and all is great with the world again.
Good Morning, Aaron.
The plugin is giving me an error when I activate it in my wp1.5.1.3 version blog:
Warning: Wrong parameter count for substr() in /home/grace/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-xmlmigrate.php on line 12Consequently, I am not given an option to export.
I am on the verge of closing my old blog (leaving a host) and your plugin promises to preserve just files I care to keep.
I would appreciate any help you could offer. I am using your plugin version 1.0.
Thank you for the right plugin at the right time!
Update: I decided to try to remove line 12 along with it’s corresponding brackets . . . and It Worked! :)
I thought this would still be worth posting.
Now, I suppose I also wouldn’t mind being able to easily export my links. Just in case. :mrgreen: (How come wp doesn’t allow for subcategories for links, anyway?)
Thanks, Valerie. A bug makes it incompatible with 1.5. Recommend you upgrade to 2.0 before attempting. I’ll fix the bug later.
As for the rest of the import, unfortunately this is not a full fledge importer. This is a plugin that duplicates behavior in the next version of WP. I suppose I might be able to figure out how to do the links and cats, etc, but everything would get a little complex for an XML file. We’ll see.
Hello Aaron,
Great Plugin! But the import dont work at my blog. I import the xml file an after a while I get the message to download my admin.php! Whats wrong? Hope you can help me!
killercup
killercup: It sounds to me like a plugin. I’d recommend disabling your plugins and re-enabling them one by one until you find the culprit. Let me know which plugin you find is causing this. Thanks
thank you for your quick answer. i disabled all plugins and got the same message. download admin.php. but why download?! the admin.php is executable and works fine. is there some other chance to fix this?
please help me! i have to migrate a blog with more than 500 osts an sql-import crashes because i got an error when i want to write a new post.
Well, just to be clear, I don’t do free support. Most of this code is taken directly from WP 2.1. What version of WP are you running?
2.0.3
is it clever just upgrade to the newest beta?
2.0.4 is in beta and should be okay. I don’t recommend upgrading to 2.1 yet unless you plan to write patches and do testing.
thank you for your help. do i have to subscribe to the teser-mailing-list or is there any other possibility to get the current 2.0.4 beta? i dont have svn.
hey, i know whats wrong! when i try to import a small file everything is ok. but when i try to import an 1,6 mb file with over 1500 entries I get the error.
if this is an server-problem, please tell me, else it might help to split large files on export!
killercup: That’s largely up to the server configuration of PHP. Not really a WP issue.
I ve asked my hoster, they have configured only the php limit at 8MB.
i hope you can tell this some other developers and there will be an option to split the export e.g. in month.
The plugin is broken on 1.5.x. Line 12 has bad substr args. Try this instead:
if ( ( ‘2.0′ == substr( get_bloginfo(’version’), 0, 3 ) ) || ( ‘1.5′ == substr( get_bloginfo(’version’), 0, 3 ) ) )
I had the same problem with 1.5 and I did the same thing as Valerie - just removed the if statement completely - and it worked fine.
Now to rebuild my site and move it back!
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This is a fantastic plugin. I was running a WP version that had been hacked to integrate with the Joomla CMS and was pessimistic about the chances of exporting to my new site. Your plugin worked flawlessly for me. Thanks.
Thank you very much for making this available. I know that you said Matt deserves much of the credit, but thank you anyways. This works great, and is allowing me to move all my family WP blogs to WP.com! Less work for me… :)
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All sounds great but I get these error in my testinstallation of 2.0.3:
“Import WordPress
Warning: file(c:Inetpubwwwrootwordpress/i/2006/08/wpxml) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 81
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 82″
I’m guessing it’s somehow related to the way the path looks in the first message. Export works great, so does import of RSS which I just tried so what could be the cure for the errors above?
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Absolutely perfect… Just what I needed. Been a bit of a long route from a blogger blog to WP on a server at home (using the import from blogger tool) to WP on my hosting acct (which didn’t allow curl, hence the long route .) but we’re here now and working.
Thanks again!
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Finally found and fixed the problem :D
For it to run on IIS I had to add
enctype="multipart/form-data"to the form-tag in wp_authors_form().Sorry for my last post. I tried so many things. What made it work was correcting the paths to the uploaded file in the database’s postmeta-table.
Thanks a lot for this. It works perfectly. For someone who doesn’t code it’s a godsend. Kudos.
Holy crap, that’s a top job.
Not to be an ungrateful hag, cause it took me about three seconds to fix, but the resultant file had this at the end (html stripped):
Warning: Missing argument 1 for wp_die() in /(path removed)wp-includes/functions.php on line 2447
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /(path removed)/wp-content/plugins/wp-xmlmigrate.php:59) in /(path removed)/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2448
…followed by some HTML for a mostly blank page. Eep!
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this is really a fantastic plugin!
thank you for making everything easy.
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Bugfix release noted above. Go download. Now. :)
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You win. :D Thanks!
Por alguna razón no puedo descargar el archivo xml desde mozilla firefox, tuve que recurrir a IExplorer para poder bajarlo. Aparte de eso, funciona de las mil maravillas.
Gracias, Thomas. Si, comprende.
Google Translation, pardon:
Estoy enterado de la edición pero no he calculado hacia fuera una solución todavía
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Hi, tried the plugin and everything worked except for pages.
When they get exported, they’re pointing to the current post id of their parent, which means when they’re imported (since the ids change) the sub pages all disappear. They’re in the database, they’re just no longer linked to their parents.
On Macintosh / Safari I get an ‘unknown error’ after clicking on the export button: it does not recognize the page as a feed. It doesn’t recognize the page as pretty much anything ;)
On Firefox / WindowsXP it shows a resulting html page with a summary of my site, not a WXR file, and nothing to download either.
What am I doing wrong? WP 2.02.
I’m glad I found this plugin. I’m moving a couple of separate blogs into WPMU. This did the trick. My problem is that we use Ultimate Tag Warrior for tagging and those tags are converted into categories upon import. Imagine having a very long list of categories in the write post sidebar. Anyway this actually worked. I’ll be doing a bit of work to separate categories and UTW tags.
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Great script, helped me a bunch, only it didn’t export/import post excerpts.
So I’ve added the post excerpt to the the export and import script. If you want I can send it to you.
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Great plugin. It would be great to have something that does this automatically.
Everytime I update a site it updates the main blog.
Must be a great plugin, I will try it right now. One question: what’s about pages? Could they be importet too? Thanx in advance.
The plugin worked great for entries, but did not import my comments. Please help?
Never mind - I spoke too soon!
Thanks!!
We manually ftp’d the XML file to our host to get around the upload limit. How do I point the importer to an XML file already on the server?
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This rocks, Aaron. I was looking for something like this for months.
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hey aaron,
i tried to import my 600 blog-posts on wordpress.com but it just creates a timeout and nothing happens.
i suggested this a while ago and i see this would be really nice: split the export file into one file for each month! so you can import one file after another and i think this might work!
aaron,
even i was able to follow your instructions!
thanks, mark
Mark: Good to hear, my man! :)
I tried the import tool, but it came out all blank in my new hosting site http://www.julianmorin.com/blog
No error message whatsoever.
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Hello
when i use the exporter i get an xml file which is 9.8mb - then when i try to import it i receive a message which states
“Sorry, there has been an error.
File is empty. Please upload something more substantial.”
this is on a mac in Safari and Firefox, wordpress 2.04
can you clarify this: “non 1.5 or 2.0.x release”? does that mean non 1.5 AND non 2.0.x? just to be sure.
i want to export certain posts under a category from a 2.0.3 wordpress install :D
php can only import files less than 8 mb. see my last comment for a suggestion for solving this problem. (splitt export in months)
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[...] haha, just now merged some posts from my old wordpress website to this site. Had to say the import/export function in manage tools is quite good. My old wordpress website is not updated to the latest version with this function, so I installed one export plugin to do the export job. For those intesrested, the plugin can be downloaded from http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-to-wordpress-import [...]
I installed plugin and importer to version 2.04, and exported my wordpress.com blog.
Upon attempted import of wordpress filem, I just get a message -
“The uploaded file could not be moved to .”
I’m guessing chmod? If that could be it, what exactly should be chmoded t owhat settings?
Still not sure how to upload files to the wordpress.com blog. I can only find how to upload images and can not seem to be able to find ftp info. Can you provide further assistance? Thanks.
[...] I had already been working on cleaning up things on my web host for the better part of the week, and this has been planned for a while now. Of course, with the fragile nature of the content, I was taking my time to make sure nothing got lost in the process. It should have been a lot easier than it was, but by default WordPress lacks an export feature for its content, which frustrated me to no end. Eventually I found a nice export plugin to do the job, but this should be part of the default setup. [...]
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[...] firstly, I tried to use the import function of wordpress, but unfortunately there is no luck for me using that functions. The reasons was I can’t able to configure the CURL extension of PHP. And because I dont know how to fix that, the thought of importing it manually is the only way left for me. Just when I was about to start the tedious way of importing my post and comments. I tried to search the internet for one last time (actually, I already manually transfered one of my old entry). Lucky me, because I did find the wp-xmlmigrate plugins that can be use on migrating an existing post and comments from wordpress to another wordpress blog. [...]
Just what I was looking for, worked perfectly, thanks ;-)
[...] Half of the previous technical issues have been resolved i.e. I now have a new PC doing its whizzbang thing in the corner. Unfortunately the same probably can’t be said for the owner. I managed to import all my old posts and comments using a great little plug-in from Aaron at Technosailor. I tried running a links exporter / importer but got an error message. Looks like it’s cut and paste then… I’m still playing around with a new layout but it has to be said that there are more interesting things popping up on a regular basis (the football season’s started again) so don’t hold your breath unless asphyixiated blue is this autumns’s colour. [...]
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I’m getting a SQL file when I export from a Yahoo! hosted WordPress blog. Any ideas?
Damon,
Here is a link that may help:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/restore/
I too have a Yahoo SQL output file but I can not seem to get things to work as per the instructions. I’m still trying to transfer my old Yahoo hosted WP posts to my new WP site.
Let me know how you make out.
Jld
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Dammit, the excerpt got bermuda triangulated.
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Aaron,
It’s a great plugin but I think I’ve found a flaw of sorts. I recently moved my blog to a new domain using the plugin and then redirected (301) all the old permalinks to the new ones. For about 20 posts out of 440 I’ve been getting 404 errors from the redirect. At first I thought the pages were missing but that’s not the problem — they are there but their slug has been changed and hence the permalink. Each affected post is one where WP would have mangled the slug originally to avoid a collision.
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Thanks a million for creating this plugin! I just exported posts from my previous blog to my current one and it works like a dream!
EXCELLENT WORK!
Gah, if only this were available when I was migrating my wordpress blog to fool45.com. Oh well, at least other people won’t suffer what I did.
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Thank you soo much! You’ve made the gruesome import/export process a breeze :)
You guys rock!
I am getting a similar error to the one in post 25 bu J-O, and I tried thier fix as outlined in post 27, but to no avail. Unfortunately, I’m doing this blog move as a favour, and can’t ask to move the host over to a linux site, where I’m sure it would probably go off w/out a hitch…
====================
Import WordPress
Warning: file(C:Program FilesApache GroupApachehtdocsvirtualhostswww.bikinizero.comwp/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/bzxml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\virtualhosts\www.bikinizero.com\wp\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 81
Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs\virtualhosts\www.bikinizero.com\wp\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 82
All done.
====================
Perhaps I misunderstood what this plugin is supposed to do - (I’m post number 54 above, and gotten no answer)
We have a wordpress.com hosted blog, and now have installed WP on our domain. We want to import all 50+ of the old posts from wordpress.com blog.
Is that what this is supposed to do?
Upon attempted import of wordpress filem, I just get a message -
“The uploaded file could not be moved to .”
and that’s all it says!
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I am having the same problem as Scott (post #65). Is there any fix for this?
Sorry to hear that Candice, but “Hooray!” someone else that at least acknowledges there’s a problem. What could it be?
I told someone this ‘might’ work, and I’m REALLY diappointed that it didn’t. With all these glowing reviews, I was starting to think I was insane.
I’m importing my wordpress blog to another domain at wordpress. I want to keep posting on the old one until I have the new one ready. If I import from the original blog, will it delete or mess up any of my existing information?
not so good:
In my experience the import/export worked really nicely. There’s one potential pitfall though if you want your new blog to exactly mirror the old one (so that for example you can redirect from old to new). The import process may mangle post slugs and permalinks wherever the posts have the same title.
hi aaron,
i ve got a multi-user blog and now one user wants to get an own blog on wordpress.com. Is there any possibilty to export only the articles from this user? or is there anther way for him to transfer his entries to wordpress.com without copy&paste everything?
Recent posts indicate problem importing from wordpress.com to own wordpress. Both Candice and Scott and, I guess, many others have the same problem, as do I! Is there a solution? I get the following message: Warning: file(D:hshomeummeraummera.comwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/wordpress2006-10-06xml): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\hshome\ummera\ummera.com\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 81
Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in D:\hshome\ummera\ummera.com\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 82
Anthony: For one, that is not my file. The importer, as I explicitly noted in the post, is a WordPress core file. The bug should be opened with them. The only thing I wrote was the exporter plugin. I only bundled the importer for users of WP 2.0.x that don’t have access to the importer yet since it is in the next version of WordPress.
For two, look at your php.ini file and check out your setting with magic_cquotes_gpc. This is stripping your slashes. This is not my problem. This is a PHP config problem.
Thirdly, you’re running on Windows. This could (I don’t know) be throwing wackiness your way too.
Aaron, appreciate your reply and as a strict amateur wandering into a world beyond my ken, I thank you! I am still little the wiser, but will consult with those who are. I am just a little surprised that there isn’t a simple means of transfering from wordpress.com to our own domain.
Aaron, I don’t know whether it’s on the export end or the import but it appears that post excerpts are not transferred. Is that a feature or a bug?
IT does not export excerpts… correct.
I might have figured out the issue of –“The uploaded file could not be moved to .”
First, you need to have an “uploads” folder, and it needs to have the right permissions. My setup did not have an uploads folder at all. The 2nd thing to check, was I had done some weird things with my permalinks and .htaccess file.
In the end I moved mine by hand, but I only had 10 entries.
hello,
i get this message:
“Howdy! This importer allows you to extract posts from wordpress RSS 2.0 file into your blog. This is useful if you want to import your posts from your local machine to the server on which you see this page. To get started you must fill in the “option” page”
but there is no option page… waht to do?
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nimue, that’s not the WordPress importer. That’s the RSS importer.
aaron, i really need your help. i need an ability to export only the entries of one author. can you please help me?
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hi - I have a wordpress.com blog and have just ( 5 miuntes ago) started a wordpress.org blog and I want to migrate all the my posts there. Am a total noob when it comes to plug ins/rss etc. If you have the patience could you explain how this works?
Good Luck Rebeca. That’s what I thought this tool was good for, importing your Wordpress.com hosted blog to your own hosted version, but apparently not.
My original post 65, and 113, and 118 all have gone unrespoonded to by the developer, although Candic had a suggestion in #123, she never tried it.
Scott: I may not have responded directly. I can’t support everyone and in fact, everything I release is on an as-is basis.
In addition, your problem is with the Importer. I need you to re-read my entry. I don’t support the importer. I didn’t write it. I only bundled it. If there is a problem with it, it needs to be reported to the WordPress developers.
Please don’t poison the readers with snide comments about my support when you yourself have not read my entry and understood it.
Rebeca: What’s the issue? Instructions in the entry? Have you followed them? Are you getting an error somewhere?
aaron, please have a look at my last comment, its important for me!
killercup: Send me an email. I can’t promise anything.
You’re right Aaron, I’m sorry to appear snide…I’m just frustrated, because it sounded like thjis would work.
Scott, try using WP on a Linux system. Load a copy of your existing blog onto a temp WP blog. Then run the import, importing your stuff into the temp blog. Once successful, export your database and reload it in Windows.
This is presuming you’re running on a Windows platform. That’s what it seems.
Sorry for not being clearer but where do I find my WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR) file?
I told you I was a newbie:)
ok scratch that - i figured that out but this is the error msg I’m getting
WordPress database error: [Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction]
I don’t think this has anything to do with your plug in right, but if you could translate that for me?
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I was trying to use this plugin with Safari, and all that would happen is my RSS reader would open, since Safari (I guess) interpreted this file as an RSS feed. I ended up using Firefox and it downloaded the file fine.
FWIW, I also had problems with uploading the xml file using Safari Firefox worked fine.
Aaron, thank you for the suggestion, but I am not on a Windows server.
Just to clarify, this is my (and a fewo thers) error, because I notice your post numbers have changed -
Upon attempted import of the apparently successfully exported wordpress.com file, I just get a message - “The uploaded file could not be moved to [blank] .” {blank} is not actually shown, it’s just blank.
With my comment in #132, i’m wondering if maybe I really do have the wrong opinion of what this is supposed to do.
Take all my wordpress.com posts from their hosted blog and host it myself, right?
Hi, great plugin and thanks for your work.
However I think I found a bug : I have child pages in my blog. They are well exported, but importing them silently fails : the importer lists the child pages as being imported, but they are not.
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Thanks so much for this handy plug-in! It allowed me to move my WP 1.5 blog to its new home on the free WP site. Couldn’t have done it without you!
just a quick: brilliant, thanks!! :)
So, reading the post above, (Kathy Spears) maybe THAT is the problem that I and a few others here are having? We may have misunderstood the function?
The opposite of Kathy, we’re actually trying to move FROM the free WP site to our own webhosts and servers, and getting the error - “The uploaded file could not be moved to .”
Might that be it?
I’m trying to migrate 680 posts from one WP install to my new one. Although the entire site properly exported in the XML file, the import stopped at post 527.
I went into the XML exported file and split off the posts that didn’t import and ran it again just for those posts, but wanted you to know.
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I have been trying all day to export my posts from my free wp.com to my newly hosted wp.ord after downloading this plugin. So far it has not worked and I am none the wiser. I am reading all these posts about this being an excellent tool and wondering what I am missing here. The option to import is there, but all I get is an error message.Unable to create directory /home/mydirectory/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2006/10. Is its parent directory writable by the server? Clues anyone?
Thanks
Hi, I think the plug-in’s great; I’ve previously used it successfully to import from my wordpress.com blog to my wordpress.org blog, and I was absolutely delighted about that.
Now, I want to to use it to import my wordpress.com to a new wordpress.com blog hosted under Joomla!.
I added the WordPress component to Joomla! from http://projects.j-prosolution.com/, which went without a hitch and seems to be a typical WordPress installation (Version 2.0, I think).
I uploaded your plug-in files (Version 1.0.2) to the appropriate places so I could import my WXR file, as per the instructions, and went to import it. I browsed my hard drive and found the appropriate file and clicked “Import”. I waited while it did its thing, then it asked me about author names. Whether I change anything for the author name or not, it doesn’t seem to matter as far as the results go, and then click “submit”. I then get the message:
1.Importing post ‘Blah blah blah’…
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: username_exists() in …./wp-admin/import/wordpress.php on line 60
If you look in this file, this function is indeed not defined. Any ideas?
Further to my previous comment (#154), I hacked the code so that this function is not called and assign %user_id to anything, then ran the import procedure again. The result was that all my posts and comments were imported, but they were authorless.
I think that the problem may be that the import program is not recognising that there is already an author and thinks it has to create one. I’ll keep hacking…
I could only solve the authorlessness by tweaking the MySQL database directly. :/
I reset permissions on the upload folder and the import of my posts and comments to my new wordpresshosted from my wp.com worked blog worked.Nifty tool. The only thing is it didn’t import pages. So it looks like I’ll have to cut and paste those. I can live with that though. Thanks Aaron for your help.
This is a fantastic tool! I’m running 2.04 and my export file created with your plugin is 19.3MB — I have over 17,300 comments — and I want to upload it to WordPress.com but Andy at WordPress says that giant import file will likely choke the system.
Is there an easy/automatic way to chop up such a file? The whole reason I want to move from standalone to WordPress.com is so I don’t have to deal with this sort of technical trouble.
If anyone has any ideas or hints, please give me a holla!
Thanks!
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So, how does this problem:
Warning: file(C:Program FilesApache Software FoundationApache2.2wwwwordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/wordpress2006-10-27xml) [function.file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\www\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 81
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Bad arguments. in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\www\wordpress\wp-admin\import\wordpress.php on line 82
be solved after all? I still haven’t found the solution…
Hi-
I set up a WP.org blog for a friend on my hosting account and now I want to move him to his own host. Amazingly enough, he is even less techno-literate than me, so I’m thinking about putting him on WP.com. His blog is on v 2.0.2. Can I use this plug-in to do this? Oh, and will it preserve the URL’s? Thanks for any help you can offer.
It did work. Perfectly. The second time I activated it. (Bugs in the first installation…). Everything’s there : old posts, old comments, old pictures-in-posts. Great. Thanks.
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It worked very well for me (on the 2nd attempt and after changing permissions on my servire) moving my posts to the new blog I’m setting up. But I noticed it didn’t export my pages, just posts, categories and comments. I can live with that as most of my pages don’t have comments turned on, but one of them does so I will have to cut and past all of those in. Just wanted to know if exporting pages is included. Great tool.
Ok, so I have just done some debugging of the Page import issue.
ALL PAGES ARE EXPORTED
ALL PAGES ARE IMPORTED
However, somehow (and this is where I fail to come up with an explanation) when the post_parent field is not “0″, the pages become invisible to the query”SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = ’static’” in wordpress.
Going in via phpMyAdmin and manually changing the post_parent field to 0 fixes it. Changing the parent via Wordpress UI afterwards keeps it visible.
My only guess is that it may have something to do with data type definitions… No clue, honestly.
But I would cheer a fix by someone more competent than myself. God knows I have done as much as I can towards sorting this out.
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Is it only me that the posts having php codes inside do not get imported properly?
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I get this error- The uploaded file could not be moved to .
Any suggestions? Thank you :-)
I tried to import my blog from wordpress.com into another WP using blog on another server.
I suppose I have the same problem as charlie just above, though my error is in Finnish, translates maybe: ‘Transported file could not be saved as .’
(’Siirrettyä tiedostoa ei voitu tallentaa nimellä .’)
My original problem was with the server, I think: I couldn’t import from Blogspot, so I put up a wordpress.com blog and moved my stuff first there.
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