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Importing Old Posts

Author: J. Angelo Racoma Category: Blogs and blogging Tags: blogging, blogs, Blogs and blogging, i.ph, import, wordpress, Writing Views: 4374

Thursday
Oct 5, 2006

I’m trying to import my old posts from my jangelo.i.ph blog, which I’ve since relegated as my archives blog. Thing is, I want to centralize everything and use racoma.com.ph for my old content (which I consider to be very relevant), for the following reasons:

* *Search engine optimization* – My i.PH blog had lost its optimizations when i.PH upgraded to Calliope version 2.
* *Monetization* – Same as the above reason, I’m no longer able to put up AdSense ads on i.PH. And i’m trying to experiment with monetizing racoma.com.ph (Against my minimalistic design stance? Not really.).

One big problem: there’s no easy way to import from i.PH. There used to be a means to backup all content using the old Blog:CMS backup feature, but WordPress simply does *not* have a WordPress-to-WordPress. And i.PH is now running a modified version of WordPress as its content management system.

So for now, I’m doing it manually, part-by-part. I’m saving the RSS 2.0 file generated by jangelo.i.ph (at http://jangelo.i.ph/blogs/jangelo/feed) and using this with the WP import tool to import ten posts at a time. Then I delete the ten posts from jangelo.i.ph, so the RSS generated would be for the next ten posts, and as these would be considered dupes by Google (very un-SEO).

Hopefully I’ll get to do enough moving in my spare time, and I hope I get to finish the total migration within a few weeks.

Update: I found an easier way

I found an easier way. Not exactly an easy way but one that’s relatively easier than the save-import-delete method. I access the RSS feed by page, by using this URL:

http://jangelo.i.ph/blogs/jangelo/?feed=rss2&paged=(insert page number here)

So this means I can easily view and save the feeds by batches of 10 without having to delete the items first. Once I’ve finished doing this to all my posts (more than a thousand) then I can delete all the posts on the original blog.

Sweet.

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noemi

October 5th, 2006 at 6:29 pm

It’s so much work but it’s worth it in the end.

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ade

October 6th, 2006 at 5:53 am

That’s a lot of work! Whoa!

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jhay

October 6th, 2006 at 6:35 am

Indeed, a lot of work. I’ve had troubles when I attempted to migrate my old posts to my new .com.ph blogs. Never knew it would be such a headache! hehe Though I’m sure it pales in comparison to what you’re doing, migrating over a thousand posts?! Oh my…

Well, the best of luck.

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J. Angelo Racoma

October 6th, 2006 at 10:47 am

Finished! I hope it’s worth it, indeed. Took me about two hours to finish. Oh, it was only about 650 in all. I over-estimated. Still, that’s a lot!

Now as for comments–I’ll probably have to forego that for now.

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