News!! Copying All The Posts From 1 Weblog To Another

This article is virtually how to re-create all the posts from 1 spider web log to another, using Blogger.  There is a dissever article virtually copying private posts, or pages, from 1 spider web log to another.

To re-create all the Posts from 1 spider web log to another, yous require to export them from the laid about blog, as well as import the file that was created into the mo file.

Any Pages (see The Difference betwixt Posts as well as Pages) inward the laid about blog, require to hold out moved individually, because pages aren't currently included inward the export file.

If yous desire to totally replace the contents of the finish spider web log amongst the contents of the source blog, therefore yous should delete the existing posts from the finish spider web log before yous import the file.  (NB   Delete posts past times going to the Posting / Edit Posts screen, as well as pressing the Delete push clit that is beside the post.   Don't delete the entire blog, or yous volition lose access to the URL).

Follow these steps to re-create all posts from 1 spider web log to another

1  Log inward to Blogger.

ii  Go to the export tab from the  Settings / Other tab.

3  Click on Export Blog.

Export-blog window on the sometime Blogger interface:
the novel interface looks a piffling different, but has the same links

3a  If yous are using the novel interface, click Download Blog on the confirmation message window:

four  Your reckoner volition download a file.   For Windows users, it volition likely hold out position inward the My Documents / Downloads file.  Or yous organisation may role some other place, or it may inquire yous where to position it.   Whatever happens, yous volition require to know where this file is saved to.

v  Open the spider web log that yous desire to deed the posts to
(You may require to log out as well as inward again, or perchance simply switch to dissimilar browser or tab)

5  Delete (using Posting / Edit Posts) whatever Posts that are already there, but which yous don't desire inward the refreshed blog.

6  Go to Settings > Other and click Import Blog.  When the box opens, pick out the exported file that yous made earlier, as well as larn inward the security-text.

Import file pick hide inward the novel interface:
the sometime version of Blogger is real similar.

7  Choose whether or non to automatically publish all imported posts.  
Only tick the box if yous DO desire the posts automatically imported.   If yous don't tick it, the posts volition hold out loaded, but amongst convey condition of Draft, therefore won't hold out visible past times readers until yous position out them.

8  Click Import Blog.

9  Check that the import worked successfully, past times looking at the blog, as well as besides at the listing of posts nether Edit Posts:  are the correct issue of posts there, practise they convey the correct labels etc.

Results

For representative this link points to a pop article inward Blogger-HAT.  

If I export-and-imported this postal service into a novel blog, the link would even therefore betoken to the same place, ie the postal service inward Blogger-HAT - non to the postal service inward the novel blog.

Any pictures, videos etc inward the sometime spider web log volition even therefore hold out inward the same house that they were inward (Picasa-web-albums, YouTube, Google Videos etc).

If yous convey imported more than the issue of posts that Blogger allows per day (currently fifty I think) therefore to brand whatever to a greater extent than posts today yous volition require to complete the captcha-test (ie entering the letters inward the funny-shaped word).   This volition larn away roughly 24 hours afterwards yous terminal larn inward to a greater extent than that the maximum-posts-per-day.

Importing to the same blog

If yous endeavour to import posts into the same spider web log that yous exported them from, Blogger volition non import whatever posts, as well as rate yous an mistake message.

If yous practise desire to practise this (eg to practise a duplicate laid of posts), therefore practise the export, modify some small-scale exceptional of the master copy posts championship or date/time, as well as therefore practise the import.

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The Difference betwixt Posts as well as Pages

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Moving some posts shape 1 spider web log to another 

Deleting blogs as well as blog-posts

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