Today: July 5th, 2008

Moving Wordpress Data to Another Host

I just changed web host. I can’t take prolonged daily downtimes. Downtimes for server maintenance is understandable. Doing it daily isn’t. I still have 2 sites to move. They can probably wait a day or two.

Exporting and Importing data from Wordpress was painless. At first, I was thinking of using the builtin export/import feature of WP only to find out it has a maximum upload limit of 2MB. I have a 16MB XML file from the using the export feature. I could’ve hack it a little to accommodate the size but exporting to SQL using phpMyAdmin was easier.

Everything was setup in the new host befor I changed the DNS entry. So if you’re reading this, then DNS info has already propagated to other servers.

May 8, 2007 | Filed Under General 

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    Kates Gasis Says:
    January 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    @Cuckoo

    WP has import feature in the Manage->Import panel. First on the list is Blogger. Although, I haven’t tried importing from Blogger, I think it will automate everything after you have authorize WP to blogger.

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    Cuckoo Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am

    Hi,
    While trying to find a solution for my problem, I stumbled upon your blog. It seems we can export data larger than 2MB.
    I have a problem. I am shifting from blogger to my own domain with WordPress software. Now WP allows only 2MB file size whereas mine is 5 MB. Can we do part export/import.
    I know nothing about CSS but can try to change under guidance.

    Can you please guide me what & how to do it ?

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