This method is only needed if you don’t have full server access to take a MySQL dump and a wpWordPress publishing platform-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 .xmlExtensible Markup Language - a set of rules for coding documents electronically (because it focuses on simplicity, generality and usability across a wide range of applications it now underlies many popular web services and computing tools) 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.

It’s obviously not quite as obvious as it could be.

I tend to get this mostly from users who need to gain admin/editor/author access to a group blog created by somebody else. New users have to create a wordpress.com account to become an author, the administrator cannot just add them as a user manually as they can on a self-hosted blog. The usernames generated by wordpress.com appear to be getting longer and more randomly generated, which is A Good Thing for security but not so good for displaying on the blog, and people appear to be unclear on how to change the name that is displayed to readers of the blog.

Luckily editing your display name is pretty easy :-

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The Personal Settings option in the Users section allows one to remove the visual editor option (for those who prefer to write directly in HTMLHyper Text Markup Language - the encoding scheme used to create and format a web document.), to push Twitter status updates to one’s blog, and more.