Merging two wordpress blogs
Over the weekend I merged the old blog at ewritecork.com/blog into this blog. I didn’t put much thought into how I would merge them beforehand, I just went to the wordpress tables in the database and started to export them.
Quickly enough I realised that I’d run into a bit of work having to import the various tables and update the post ID’s and so on. I Googled ‘merge wordpress blogs’ and it pointed me to Merging two wordpress blogs . After a quick read I found out about the built in export option in Wordpress which I had never used before.
I went in to the old blog, went to Settings -> Export and it exported the posts, comments, authors etc into a nice neat XML file. Back in this blog I was able to import this XML file without a bother at all.
Its a very handy feature, it saved me messing with the tables directly so I thought I’d post it up here so it might be of use to someone else.
The old eWrite blog is now gone and I put the following htaccess file in its place.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*ewritecork\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.gordonmurray.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This directs any traffic from the ewrite blog to this blog, including any link to a specific blog post.
This could come in useful Gordon - thanks for posting it.
The new site is cool - well done and best of luck for the future
Joe