I’ve just tried a full cycle of WordPress 2.7 exporting and importing features, and I must say, it’s COOL! As easy as snapping your fingers (snapping fingers is not something everyone can do though :p).
Exporting Posts, Comments, Categories and Etc
In WordPress 2.7, there’s an Export utility under the Tools menu in admin panel. This tool allows us to export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories and tags into a format (XML file) called eXtended RSS or WXR.
By selecting an author (or all authors), you’re ready to effortlessly export the above mentioned contents in your WordPress blog.
Even if you’re not migrating your blog, this utility is a very good and convenient backup tool too.
I’ve got an XML file of 1.08MB.
Importing Blog Contents from WordPress, Blogger, Movable Type and More
Similarly, under the Tools menu in admin panel, there’s also an Import utility. With this importing tool, we can import posts from WordPress (of course), Blogger, Blogware, LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad, RSS feed, and etc.
As for importing from WordPress, you can simply accomplish the task by uploading the XML file (eXtended RSS / WXR) generated from Export utility.
You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map to an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file into your blog, and a neat set of logs will also be generated.
Neat and easy, without requiring brain-twisting technical know-how, and without stimulating your adrenaline too.
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