Mickaël’s Weblog

I’ve finally upgraded my blog container Wordpress from 2.05 to 2.5.
The first difficulty is to transfer data from former blog. I used phpAdmin plugin for this…it just work fine!
…euh not really: all links to images or other media were broken (still referencing the previous blog).

Wordpress is so massively used that I bet I have certainly not be the only one with this problem. I googlelized on this and found absolutely nothing. Every articles were presenting the export/import as a feature working as a charm. Yes, it is simple & quick, but the end result not good. Am I the only one encounter this?

To solve this I had to:

• I simply delete all my posts,
• edit my exported xml file to do a find & replace on the urls to point to the new blog
• copy the content/uploads folder in my new blog

Notice the default upload path of the new wordpress 2.5 installation was “content” and not “content/uploads”. Check this also!

At this stage I have restored all my posts and images and href are pointing correctly yo the new blog.

Wah’t remains: blogroll and pages like “About” page. For those; I will do it manually (few blogroll and only one page).

I think I will keep the former blog for a while till I check everything works fine.