tigtog's corner » large blog http://www.tigtog.net webwrangling and WordPress Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:07:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Migrating a HUGE WordPress blog http://www.tigtog.net/249/migrating-a-huge-wordpress-blog/ http://www.tigtog.net/249/migrating-a-huge-wordpress-blog/#comments Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:28:56 +0000 Viv http://www.tigtog.net/?p=249 Continue reading →]]> A flock of birds is moving across the background of a big bank of cloud against a bright blue sky - WordPress logos accompany them, and the text *Migrating WordPress to a New Server* has been added to the pictureFor the last few days, I have been following the instructions in this post by Dennis Howlett: How to migrate a monster WordPress blog.

This method is only needed if you don’t have full server access to take a MySQL dump and a wp-content dump in order to migrate a blog using PHPMyAdmin or equivalent.

Dennis’ post shows how you can still migrate a very large blog using the native WordPress export feature, splitting the export .xml file into smaller components using a WXR splitter, then using the native WordPress import feature to upload the archives.

It’s tedious as hell, but it does work.

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