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Migrating contents and comments from an old Wordpress blog to a new, also Wordpress, blog?

Asked by rexpresso (922points) October 18th, 2010

A friend of mine had a Wordpress blog hosted at his ISP. That blog is actually still active.

Now he created a new blog at Wordpress.com and has made a last post on the old one linking to the new one.

But I suspect there would be a better way…

What do you suggest?

A plugin to migrate everything?

Reinstating the old blog on a new server with a decent URL?

Please let me know your thoughts, thanks

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You would need to export the wordpress database from his current host to the new host. Wordpress has documents on how to do this between two private servers. I do not believe it is possible to get wordpress.com to accept a database from his server.. but it wouldn’t hurt to ask.

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