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Uploading a new site [Ask the Internet]
Apr. 25th, 2012 01:17 amOK, so the guy I hired has set up a template/design/plugins for wordpress for my site after forever, many misunderstandings, and a general sense of malaise.
It sucks, but has functionality I like, so I'll worry about making it work by actually having the damn thing up and just posting, who cares what it looks like.
Fine. Great.
He's sent me what appears to be an xml export.
Fine. Great.
So how the hell do I get it on my site? I have an old wordpress install with dreamhost. If I just import this, will it apply all the menus and plugins and what have you? Dreamhost and Wordpress.org are deeply useless in answering this question. (What happens to the posts that are already there? Do they stay?)
I've backed up everything from the old one to the best of my ability, but how I actually get the new bits up is completely opaque to me since documentation is something no one seems to believe in.
It sucks, but has functionality I like, so I'll worry about making it work by actually having the damn thing up and just posting, who cares what it looks like.
Fine. Great.
He's sent me what appears to be an xml export.
Fine. Great.
So how the hell do I get it on my site? I have an old wordpress install with dreamhost. If I just import this, will it apply all the menus and plugins and what have you? Dreamhost and Wordpress.org are deeply useless in answering this question. (What happens to the posts that are already there? Do they stay?)
I've backed up everything from the old one to the best of my ability, but how I actually get the new bits up is completely opaque to me since documentation is something no one seems to believe in.
