Title: import wordpress to wordpress
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# import wordpress to wordpress

 *  [zpao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zpao/)
 * (@zpao)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/)
 * I was wondering if there was a script or some way to import an old install of
   wordpress on 1 server to wordpress on another server. I checked the codex and
   searched the forums, but found nothing. this would be pretty easy if my old server
   had phpadmin, but it doesnt (boooo to brinkster). Any help would be appreciated.
   Thanks.

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 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214614)
 * Just copy the 5 or so tables from phpmyadmin and you are done.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214615)
 * Export it all as RSS ?
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214616)
 * Maybe you could ask the customer service to email you a backup copy of the database?
 *  [lukecollison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukecollison/)
 * (@lukecollison)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214735)
 * I have an old server running WordPress 1. and I’ve just installed wordpress 1.5.2.1
   on a new server. its running but now i want to just import all the entries from
   the old server.
 * how do i do that?
 *  [angsuman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angsuman/)
 * (@angsuman)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214778)
 * My way:
    Dump the old database using SQL dump and load it to the new database.
   As your new WP installation is new, so just make it point to the uploaded database(
   from the old db dump) and run upgrade procedures (refer to the readme file). 
   It will take about 2 minutes and you will be done.
 * Another way (Or the Highway 🙂 ):
    Try to emit full RSS feeds from your old blog
   with 9999 entries. Use an offline blog editor like Zempt, newzcrawler etc. and
   read this feed. Change the settings to now dump it to the new blog.
 * Check the codex, there may be some procedure already to use RSS feed to populate
   WP.
 *  Thread Starter [zpao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zpao/)
 * (@zpao)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214854)
 * So it was much easier than I thought it would be. I forgot that you could set
   the number of entries to include in the RSS feed.
    So for LukeCollison, here 
   is how I did it: 1. log into your old WP and goto options|reading and in Syndication
   Feeds set most recent: 9999 and make sure you have full text selected. 2. edit
   wp-admin/import-rss.php on your new server and make the second line look like`
   define('RSSFILE', 'http://www.oldserver.com/wpdir/wp-rss2.php');` 3. point your
   browser to newserver.com/wpdir/wp-admin/import-rss.php
 * or you can of course just dump the database and then import it (i realized you
   can just install phpmyadmin if your server doesnt have it. silly me)
 *  Thread Starter [zpao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zpao/)
 * (@zpao)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-214963)
 * although if you do it the RSS way, you will not preserve comments. so if possible,
   I suggest doing it the database dump then insert
 *  [playstadium](https://wordpress.org/support/users/playstadium/)
 * (@playstadium)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-215194)
 * I’m in a similar situation, where I will merge to WP sites, and do have access
   to the database (through phpMyadmin) … **but** what about the blog ids – I would
   expect them to conflict when I import from one to the other ??
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/import-wordpress-to-wordpress/#post-215195)
 * Merging two WP databases is virtually impossible.
 * If one database has only a very few posts, it can probably be done.
    If though
   it has a lot of posts / comments then as you expect there will be numerous conflicts
   inside the database.
 * How large are the databases ?

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