Title: WordPress Importer fail
Last modified: September 7, 2017

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# WordPress Importer fail

 *  [konrad6388](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konrad6388/)
 * (@konrad6388)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-importer-fail/)
 * Hi all,
 * I had a website at wordpress.com but I’m moving to more professional levels and
   wanted to move it to wordpress.org.
 * I have a hoster and I have installed wordpress through the hoster. Worked well.
   
   Now I wanted to import the old site to the new host.
 * I exported on the wordpress.com site which gave me a quite small *.XML file.
   
   Then I installed the wordpress importer and tried to import, but when I select
   the file and click on “update and upload” it just give me the option to download
   a file called “admin.php”.
 * [SCREENSHOT](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxIcLR2VyuyHLWwtTEZVanZTcWc/view?usp=sharing)
 * I dont know what to do. Anyone have suggestions?
 * Kind regards
    Konrad

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 *  [reni1906](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reni1906/)
 * (@reni1906)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-importer-fail/#post-9488895)
 * Hi Konrad, do you have solved the problem? I´ve the same trouble with my import.
 *  Thread Starter [konrad6388](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konrad6388/)
 * (@konrad6388)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-importer-fail/#post-9488958)
 * Hi,
 * I partly solved it.
    1. I installed the same theme used in the wordpress.com 
   version 2. I changed the computer and tried again at home.
 * Right now I’m 90% sure that this were the 2 things I changed.
    The import worked
   okay for the content but not at all for the site structure etc.
 * Hope you can figure it out for you as well!
    Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [konrad6388](https://wordpress.org/support/users/konrad6388/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-importer-fail/#post-9488958)
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