{"id":22903,"date":"2016-07-06T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=22903"},"modified":"2016-06-19T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T00:11:55","slug":"wordpress-blog-export-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wordpress-blog-export-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Blog Export Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/wordpress_export.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"WordPress Blog Export Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/wordpress_export.jpg\" title=\"WordPress Blog Export Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">WordPress Blog Export Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>WordPress <a target=_blank title='Blog information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blog'>Blogs<\/a> have been around a long time now, and you&#8217;d expect over that time, for administrative aspects of the maintainance of WordPress Blogs to have become pretty good.  In my experience, that is very true.  I really like the way WordPress <a target=_blank title='Pinging information from Wikipedia ... thanks' href='https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ping_(blogging)'><i>pings<\/i><\/a> the search engines for your latest blog postings via <a target=_blank title='Ping-o-matic landing page' href='https:\/\/pingomatic.com\/'><i>ping-o-matic<\/i><\/a>.  Another maintainance feature we like is its Tools -&gt; <i>Export<\/i> submenu.<\/p>\n<p>The Tools -&gt; <i>Export<\/i> submenu can create for you, on your (laptop or other computer) hard disk is an XML file backing up &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All Posts and Pages<\/li>\n<li>Posts only &#8230; ie. your articles<\/li>\n<li>Pages only &#8230; ie. your menus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you can think of this just as &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a &#8220;peace of mind&#8221; backup &#8230; and\/or a &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>means to (Tools -&gt;) <i>Import<\/i> into another WordPress website &#8230; as WordPress explains below at the top of their (Tools -&gt;) <i>Export<\/i> XML file (you can see being created in today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/wordpress_export.jpg\" title='Click picture'>tutorial picture<\/a>) for our WordPress 4.1.1 <a target=_blank title='WordPress 4.1.1 blog' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/'>blog<\/a> (with the TwentyTen theme)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\n&lt;!&#8211; This is a WordPress eXtended RSS file generated by WordPress as an export of your site.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; It contains information about your site&#8217;s posts, pages, comments, categories, and other content.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; You may use this file to transfer that content from one site to another.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; This file is not intended to serve as a complete backup of your site.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; To import this information into a WordPress site follow these steps:<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; 1. Log in to that site as an administrator. &#8211;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;!&#8211; 2. Go to Tools: Import in the WordPress admin panel.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; 3. Install the &#8220;WordPress&#8221; importer from the list.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; 4. Activate &#038; Run Importer. &#8211;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;!&#8211; 5. Upload this file using the form provided on that page.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; 6. You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;    on the site. For each author, you may choose to map to an<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;    existing user on the site or to create a new user.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211; 7. WordPress will then import each of the posts, pages, comments, categories, etc.<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;&lt;!&#8211;    contained in this file into your site. &#8211;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;!&#8211; generator=&#8221;WordPress\/4.1.11&#8243; created=&#8221;2016-06-18 08:51&#8243;<br \/>\n&#8211;&gt;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice on that WordPress &#8220;blurb&#8221; above no mention of (<a target=_blank title='WordPress themes' href='http:\/\/www.wordpress.com\/Themes'>WordPress<\/a>) <a target=_blank title='Theme (computer) iformation from Wikipedia' href='http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theme_%28computer%29'><i>Theme<\/i><\/a>.  That is because this &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>(Tools -&gt;) <i>Export<\/i> on original WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Install destination <a target=_blank title='WordPress .org blog landing page ... for your own Apache\/PHP\/MySql hosting' href='http:\/\/wordpress.org'>WordPress.org<\/a> (or <a target=_blank title='WordPress .com blog landing page ... for WordPress.com hosting' href='http:\/\/wordpress.com'>WordPress.com<\/a>) blog website, as required<\/li>\n<li>(Tools -&gt;) <i>Import<\/i> on destination WordPress<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p> &#8230; procedure can be a way to map existing WordPress data onto a WordPress website using a different &#8220;Theme&#8221;, if you like.  Food for thought, perhaps?!<\/p>\n<p>Will leave you with the excellent WordPress Codex documentation on (Tools -&gt;) <a target=_blank title='WordPress Codex information trgarding Tools - Export' href='https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Tools_Export_Screen'><i>Export<\/i><\/a>.  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