Please help with WP

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I need to change my hosting account and i am planing to use wp instead of the regular html website.


How do i transfer my all the blog posts i have done over the months...hundreds of them. am afraid my labor of over 8 months will be gone in three minutes.


Lian
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  • You are plain html files for all your content right now? Can you give the link of your site?
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    • I have just installed wp. but can't transfer the old postings.

      These are the steps i followed without success.

      1. changed DNS to my new hosting
      2. took a back up of old wordpress files
      3. took a back up of .sql file
      4. Add my domain on my new hosting account
      5. installed wordpress on my new hosting account
      6. since mysql is already created when i installed wp. no need to install again (right?)
      7. took note of new mysql details and change them on old mysql file
      8. uploaded old wordpress files on main root
      9. imported saved mysql file

      now my website appears like crazy and i cannot login to my wp-admin area anymore

      Lian
  • Just zip the wordpress folder and take a backup of your database. Now in your new host upload the zip file, extract it. Create a new database and import the sql file which you created from old host. Change the data base user/pass in the wordpress config file. It should work.

    Dont install a new copy of wordpress in the new host.
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  • You can also do a search on WordPress Extend Plugin directory for WordPress Database Backup plugin. This plugin will allow you to do a On-demand backup of your WordPress database and either download to your computer or schedule an email backup.

    Mark
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    • you missed one step and that is you should have exported your posts, pages, comments to an XML file that you could import into your new WordPress install.

      in your old WordPress dasboard look under "Tools" and click"Export". You will be prompted to download an .xml file to your computer. Keep it handy.

      then in your new WordPress dashboard look under "Tools" and click "Import"
      You will come to a page with a list of apps you can import blog posts from. Select "WordPress". You will be prompted to browse for the xml file you downloaded from your old WordPress and you click "Import"
      voila! All your old posts and pages will appear in your new WordPress blog.
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  • You can easily compress the entire folder and export the database and move to the new hosting. After uncompressing files and importing the database, just edit wp-config.php and you are ready to go.
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  • I have to echo Karen on this one - I tried moving a couple of blogs recently with the "copy everything over" method with absolutely no luck! But a clean wordpress install, and then export/import the posts and pages worked like a charm both times. You will need to manually install all the plugins and setup the users on the new installation, but it's still quicker than reformatting all your pages.
  • simple solution is

    copy the wordpress (old files ) to new host and import mysql thats it

    dont put new wp files and old db
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