Title: Migrating blog posts from wordpress.com issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Migrating blog posts from wordpress.com issue

 *  [talkaboutyork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talkaboutyork/)
 * (@talkaboutyork)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migrating-blog-posts-from-wordpresscom-issue/)
 * Hi
 * I have recently set up a self hosted blog on wordpress and now want to move my
   blogposts from my old wordpress.com blog. I have followed various tutorials and
   to the best of my knowledge have done everything correctly. I am hosting with
   hostgator, used their quickinstall and set up wordpress. I used the export tool
   on the old blog to save a file of all the old blog posts. And the import tool
   on the new blog to move them. However, although I can see all of the images and
   a txt file for the blog posts in the media library, they don’t show up as posts.
   The categories and tags I have used previously show up in those folders, but 
   there is nothing in the blog posts.
 * I have tried this several times including turning off all plugins. But it still
   won’t work. Any ideas why or what I could do to fix this?
 * One other point – not sure if this has anything to do with it – when I first 
   downloaded wordpress from hostgator, it said that I should put the URL for the
   blog with a / myblog in case I didn’t want to have the blog as my primary website.
   I’m not sure if I want another website at this point so I followed their advice.
   When I did that, I manage to tranfer all my old blog posts over successfully.
   However, I then realised that the URL for my blog wouldn’t work unless I typed
   in /myblog afterwards and I didn’t want that. So I uninstalled the entire thing
   and started over with just the blog URL (leaving off the /myblog). Since doing
   that I can’t seem to get the blog posts to show up.
 * Please help! I’ve spent about 5 days trying to get this to work and am going 
   nuts(am not techy either)
 * Thanks

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