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 in each case.
If you only want to transfer some posts between two blogs, 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, decide what should happen to any posts that are already in the 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 estimate the time needed for each option, ie
- Time to move a post individually, multiplied by the number of posts to be moved
- Time to export and import, plus (time to delete a post times the number of posts that will need to be deleted).
And then 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.
Related Articles
Moving all posts from one blog to anotherMoving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another
Converting Posts into Pages
The Difference between Posts and Pages
