Title: importing from WordPress.com
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# importing from WordPress.com

 *  [arm0110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arm0110/)
 * (@arm0110)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/)
 * I’ve decided to move my blog from WordPress.com to a hosted service. So I’m trying
   the Import feature in 2.0.2 admin, however WordPress.com is not listed as an 
   importable item. Any ideas on how to make that one work????

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356092)
 * Might poke around the .com forums (wordpress.com/forums/) and see if anything
   new is out from them related to backing up data…
 * I think the only option to get data off of wp.com though is to go with the RSS
   importer.
 *  Thread Starter [arm0110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arm0110/)
 * (@arm0110)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356098)
 * Yeah, I saw that mentioned. I’ve been trying the RSS feed option, but for some
   reason I can’t get more than 10 posts on my feed, even though my options are 
   set for 66 (the total # of posts on my blog).
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356099)
 * I had a similar issue once importing from a different blog (not wp). I ended 
   up viewing the feed (in all of its glory) in a webbrowser and saving that as 
   an .xml file.
 * Then I’d import that file as rss (think I had to copy it to the server, but maybe
   not?). It would usually crap out after 10 or so, so I’d look at what did get 
   imported, then edit my xml file to remove those imported entries and start again.
 * Tedious, but it worked.
 *  Thread Starter [arm0110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arm0110/)
 * (@arm0110)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356103)
 * Boy, based on your description, manually recreating every post in the new location
   is looking more attractive all the time! ha ha ha
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356105)
 * Does WP.com let you use MyphpAdmin?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356111)
 * no, WP.com doesn’t let you use any db tools.
 * Arm0110 – yeah, it was a tossup on if cut and paste would’ve been quicker…
 *  Thread Starter [arm0110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arm0110/)
 * (@arm0110)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356112)
 * No, no access to that kind of stuff.
 *  Thread Starter [arm0110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arm0110/)
 * (@arm0110)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-from-wordpresscom/#post-356438)
 * Update and thanks: I did finally manage to get a full RSS feed from the wordpress.
   com site. I had to switch themes in order for it to work (used Simpla temporarily).
   The RSS import into the new site worked great. I did have to manually recreate
   the comments in the new location, but it wasn’t too bad. At least there were 
   only a few!
 * Thanks for the tips.

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