For a number of reasons (I didn’t plan this) I’m moving house again.
I gave it a try of importing content from another site into WordPress dot com end of last October. I had a very old free site sfong15 dot WordPress dot com. Import wasn’t successful (only 993 imported), I got some php error. I then registered a brand new empty site notsowise dot wordpress dot com to have another go at importing. My content, consisting of about 1,300 entries, was a file less than 12Mb. Again it failed (only 942 imported).
In both attempts I got onto support but at the end nothing was done to my satisfaction.
Last night I tried again, registered a site was359 dot wordpress dot com, imported 1,318 entries (around 12.7Mb, right time to do this as import limit is 15Mb), horray I got all entries imported.
Next step after above was mapping of my domain to here. I didn’t want to map the one I want first so I used a spare name as experiment. Steps were:
- Login Godaddy changed DNS serveres pointing to wordpress dot com nameservers
- Created a subdomain he.was359.net and forward it to was359.net
- Add domain mapping in dashboard here
- Then I had to pay $9.97
- Select the newly added domain and click ‘update primary domain’.
For the first hour or so nothing happened and I got ‘site not found’. I pinged the new domain name it did point to the correct IP address. In order to speed up the process I then deleted the record in Slicehost dot com (the VPS I’m using for all my sites).
I later found whenever I want to amend anything on this domain mapping wordpress dot com will prompt me to pay again so I wrote to support. Support then said
….don’t have to pay again to change a domain mapping upgrade within 30 days of purchase, but we need to help you do that from support…
Fine, I feel better. So very soon I’ll be moving am dot notsowise dot net here.
The above would not be possible if I wasn’t able to export content from Habari to WordPress.
