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Can I fix it?

Granted, this is a genealogy blog.  And I rarely post non-genealogy subjects.  However, I’ve been working on this for 3 days and it’s a bit frustrating!

bluehost

bluehost (Photo credit: msandy)

The goal was to put my website and my blog “under one roof” so to speak.  The web host I used for my website was GoDaddy with whom I had become increasingly dissatisfied.  Many of my friends an collaborators had recommended BlueHost.  OK!  They know  better, so here I go and begin the transition.

Without boring you with the phone calls, chats and slogging through the menus and learning the new terminology, I can tell you that I now know that my blog was with WordPress.COM!  BlueHost can only deal with WordPress.NET.  Hmmmmm.  Should that make a difference?  Apparently the answer is a resounding “YES!”

English: The logo of the blogging software Wor...

English: The logo of the blogging software WordPress. Deutsch: WordPress Logo 中文: WordPress Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The fix for this was allegedly easy.  My question is, “Easy for whom?”  Some allegedly easy steps: 1) Go to the original blog’s dashboard; 2) Export “ALL” into an XML file which, for the sake of ease, I put on my desktop; and 3) Import the file to my new WordPress blog at BlueHost.  Only the posts from July 2012 to March 2013 showed up! After 4 attempts guiding by 4 different support Techs, I let it go for another day!

“Someday” I’ll get to it.  In the meantime, I believe I’ve lost all of the followers who have gathered over the past 2 years.  Maybe it’s a good thing…..I don’t think so!

 

2 Responses

  1. amdy says:

    Yikes!
    I’m trying to figure out how to create a commercial web site and incorporate my blog into it. I don’t want to loose all of my followers, but I can only sell items I make on my blog. So I’m pretty sure I need to create a business/commercial site.
    Creating a web site with a blog and then moving my WP blog to my hosted web site could give me the same problems you are having.
    As bloggers we know more than 90% of people, but my eyes glaze over when tech support gets all techie on me also. i know this is so much easier than it was a few years ago, but i’m lost all the time!
    Andy

    • dave@oldbones.co says:

      I’ll let you know what I do. One option is to bring everything over to Blogger. I have a few posts over there, but originally wanted to stay with WP because that’s where most of the posts are. However, if I have to start from scratch, it changes the picture.

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