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The official blog of CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop.

Far From the Madding Crowd

The official blog of CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop.

Migrating

WordPress Guide: Migrating website content

Posted on July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 By maddingcrowd

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‘.

MigratingDepending 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 :

successmessage

  • 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.

assignauthor

  • 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

Importsuccess

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)

Want to improve your site perfomance more? Here is WordPress Guide : 7 Best Practices .

 

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Far From the Madding Crowd is the blog of CinnamonTeal Print and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop, the first a self-publishing service, the second a physical bookshop, located in Goa (India). Our blogs cover topics mostly related to books, their production and sale, as also to the joyous topic of reading. wehave been in the book business since 2006, and we hope to share our observations of the Indian publishing industry with you.

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