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Did you know that with the new 2.1+ version of WordPress you can easily move Data such as comments, and posts from one WP blog to another?

Lets say that you want to move files from a site called mydomainA.com to another called mydomainB.com. Now it doesn’t mater if these blogs are on the same domain as in myblog.com/blog or blog.myblog.com or different domains altogether. What matters is that both must be using the same version of WordPress.

Here’s how you do it:

1. Make sure your blogs are using WP 2.1 + and that both are using the same version – if they aren’t you need to upgrade your WordPress version first.

2. Back up your files on each blog!

You can backup your blog in two fairly simple ways:

A. Use a WordPress Backup plugin and download the backup to your computer

B. Or, If your web host uses C-Panel Login to your C-Panel and click on the icon marked BackUp. You can do a full backup of your home directory and or you can download copies of your MySql database(s).

Personally – If I’m doing a big job like a major upgrade or transferring files I backup with the plugin AND with the C-Panel backup service. Better safe than sorry is what I always say.

If you did happen to download the WordPress backup plugin I would seriously consider using it to backup your blog at least once week. My former web host shut down my account at the beginning of February without notice and for a short while I didn’t know if I could get backups of my sites. It was a very scary and stressful time. Be smarter than I was – backup your sites regularly!

Back to transferring data such as posts from one blog to another …

Now that you are done upgrading WordPress if you needed to, and backing up your sites you can begin to transfer your files from one site to another.

I’m describing this as if it’s two wordpress blogs, but WordPress has made it easier to transfer files from say blogger or a Typepad blog into a WordPress blog using similar methods. However, since I don’t use other blogging platforms I’m only going to discuss the procedure for moving data from one WordPress blog to another:

3. Open up the ADMIN area of both of your wordpress blogs

4. In the MANAGE section of mydomainA.com (this is the blog you want to move files from) select EXPORT and download the export file to your computer.

5. In the MANAGE section of mydomainB.com (the blog you want to move files to) select IMPORT, then select WordPress from the list and find the export file that you just saved to your computer and import it into the mydomainA.com blog.

If all has gone well you should have all the posts from MydomainB.com in your MydomainA.com blog. Easy eh?

If things didn’t go well at least you have the backups that you made before hand. You did make the backup files didn’t you? You can re-install your backups if needed through C-Panels MySQL section. It’s a bit complicated and since everything hopefully went well I’m not going to describe how to do that in this post.

This is one of the features that I like best about the new WordPress 2.1+ version. They’ve made it so much easier to transfer files from one blog to another, or to even use the export feature as a method of backing up your files.

I hope that you’ve found this post helpful.

These instructions are for adding a blogroll to WordPress on your own domain. At this time we haven’t figured out how to add a blogroll to a wordpress.com blog, but it’s fairly easy to add one to WordPress that is hosted on your own domain.

To put the blogroll code on a single page:

Go to the USER section on your DASHBOARD, and scroll down the user page until you find an area called PERSONAL OPTIONS – this will be in the lower left. Un-check the box beside “Use the visual rich editor when writing” and save options. You will now be writing your page in plain text.

Go back to the writing section and select WRITE NEW PAGE.

Give your page a title and perhaps use an image that might be supplied with the blogroll code that you are about to add to your site. Adding an image will create a nice looking header above the list on your new blogroll page. You can also link the image that you use to the home url of the blogroll that you are adding.

Paste the blogroll code into the page. The blogroll code will not work if you are writing in Rich Text so please be sure that you have done the very first instruction that I listed and switched to plain text mode.

Save your page and check to make sure it’s working.

You could also put the code in your sidebar:

Go into your WP admin section and select PRESENTATION, then select theme editor and select the correct theme.

Once you have opened the theme that you are using, you’ll find that the theme is open to the CSS Stylesheet file but all the other files that belong to the theme will be listed on the right.

You want to select your SIDEBAR page.

Find an appropriate place in your sidebar for the blogroll code. You can put an image header above the blogroll if you like and then past the blogroll code into your sidebar. You may have to enclose the blogroll code with list tags < li > < / li > or < div > < / div > (no spaces between selected li or div codes, blogroll code should go in the middle of either of these codes. )

If you’ve posted the code in correctly you should have a new blogroll in your sidebar. If by chance the blogroll isn’t working go back and make sure that there are no spaces in the code. Usually the only space in the code is right after SRC.

I hope that you’ve found this information helpful.

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