Migrating All Posts Content from My WSS Blog to the New WordPress Blog
Following up on my previous post (Installation & Configuration of MySQL, PHP, WordPress on IIS 7 and Windows 7 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta) it’s time to migrate my posts to the new blog. I had to sit back and think about a strategy. The question was: What is the common thing between blogs? hmm the answer was pretty much easy! RSS… yes! I can save my list RSS to my laptop and then upload it to my new WordPress blog. However, knowing the path is nothing like walking the path.
Exporting the WSS Posts
Of course you can go directly to your list and click on the Actions menu and select View RSS Feed.
The only problem is that RSS Feeds are setup by default to be generated for the past 7 days and with a maximum number of posts (25). First we need to change the settings to include all our posts by raising the maximum number of posts higher than the actual number of all our posts and to include the whole time period you have been blogging. Click on the list Settings menu and select List Settings.
In the Settings page click on RSS Settings under the communications section.
In the RSS Settings page, scroll down to the Item Limit section. Unless you’re Joel Olson (that is you have a huge number of posts) fill in 1000 and 10000 in the maximum items and maximum days fields and click OK.
Now go back and click on the View RSS Feed under the Actions menu.
You’ll get the RSS Feed page. Right click and click on View Source and Save the file to your desktop to use it later in importing all the posts into WordPress.
Now launch your WordPress blog administration site, in my case “http://i-bander.local/wordpress/wp-admin/” web site created by the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.
A huge list will be displayed listing most of the popular blog providers. Scroll down till you find RSS and click it.
Click on Browse and lookup the XML file of the RSS feeds you just saved to your desktop.
Hooooray! You’re done with the first phase.
The phases that follow are redundant work, you just need to copy all the images to your new resource provider (Don’t panic, I meant a Folder hahaha) and update all the links to images or other posts in your imported posts. Looks like I have a long night going through that!
Make sure to nudge me if you need help.
