Another solution is to use WordPress 2.1‘s export function to export your posts in xml. You can then easily import this into a new WordPress installation. Just make sure you keep a backup of your WordPress installation files (especially your wp-content directory which holds your themes and probably your uploads too). A mySQL backup should preserve most of your settings and formatting (sidebars and users, for example) but it won’t necessarily carry across your uploads (the developers in our audience will be able to tell you definitively) so just watch that.
Anyway, we are back up now. Our apologies for the inconvenience and for the lack of new content the last few days (difficult to add new content it we are going to overwrite it anyway).
Tags: wordpress, migration, lessons learned, wordpress 2.1, wizardworx, mladen mihajlovic, chris dawson, andrew glanville
What do you think?