Migrating from an old WordPress website to a new one? And still want the old posts and comments?
Worry not. Here is a complete guide on how to migrate the old WordPress content to the newly installed setup.
Exporting
We will be exporting the old post comments,pages,etc. using the in-built WordPress feature.
- Open the old WordPress website you will be migrating from using wp-admin.
- In the Dashboard, go to Tools and select ‘Export‘.
Depending on your requirement, you can choose from the above options given.
For example: If you are only interested in migrating the posts, then select the Posts option.
- Select any 1 option.
- Then click on ‘Download Export File‘.
A file will be downloaded on the browser. It will be in XML(.xml) format.
Importing
After exporting the old WordPress content to a downloaded file, move on to the new website where you will be importing.
- Open the old WordPress website you will be migrating from using wp-admin.
- In the Dashboard, go to Tools and then select ‘Import‘.
- There is WordPress option, click on ‘Install Now‘.
- It will begin installing immediately.
- After it is successfully installed, you will get the following message :
- After getting the above message, select ‘Run Importer‘.
- Press ‘Choose File‘ and then browse through your directory to the downloaded file(.xml format).
- Click ‘Open‘.
- Now click on the ‘Upload file and Import‘ and wait for the file to be uploaded.
- After this step it will ask for ‘Assign Author‘.
- You can assign the new Author to the posts by selecting it from dropdown.
- Check the ‘Download and import file attachments‘ because selecting will also download the attachments automatically.
- Then select on ‘Submit‘.
- After import is successful, you will get the following message
That’s it !! The migrating process was successful because if it had some issues if it would never display a success message.
Note: WordPress will throw an error while importing if the file(.xml) exceeds 2Mb , increase the Max Upload Limit size.(Default is 2Mb)
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