Moving some posts from one blog to another

This article is about how to copy some of the posts from one Blogger blog to another.

Overview:

Previously, I've written about moving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another and moving all posts from one blog to another.   They are in separate articles because the techniques used are quite different.

If you only want to move some posts, then you need to choose between:

• Moving each post individually,or
• Moving all the posts then and deleting the ones you don't want from the "new" blog.

Before you start, you need to think about what should happen to posts already in the source of destination blog:  if you want to delete them, you need to do it from the Posting / Edit Posts tab (press the delete link beside each one).  Don't just delete the enter blog (from the Settings / Basics tab), because that will remove your access to the URL.


How to decide:

Choosing whether to most post individually, or moving all of them is firstly about maths.

You need to calculate

A = time to move a post individually X number of posts to be moved

and

B = time to export and import, plus { time to delete a post * number to be deleted}


Choose the smallest one.

Except - you may like to figure in the chance of making a mistake, or of wanting to make small changes to come posts along the way.  Possibly you need to consider which approach you're most comfortable with - so it may not even be about maths at all!

Either way, remember that Pages (see The Difference between Posts and Pages) in the first blog, need to be moved individually because they aren't currently included in the export file.

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Related Articles: 



Moving all posts from one blog to another

Moving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another

Converting Posts into Pages

The Difference between Posts and Pages