Comments on: How to Combine Multiple WordPress Blogs Into One

By: Make Life Simple: Consolidate Your Sites | Market My Novel

Make Life Simple: Consolidate Your Sites | Market My Novel — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:04:03 +0000

[...] it – it is now OK to combine a variety of blogs. I found a terrific post from the author of PaulyMath.com about how he combined his blogs – and how it helped with his content production. This was one [...]

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:59:14 +0000

What kind of problem? For me it just worked.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:44:41 +0000

Ack… I found your super helpful video and did step 1, 2, and 3… but wordpress is having a major problem with importing xml files. Tips??

By: Anne @ lifestyler treadmill

Anne @ lifestyler treadmill — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:52:10 +0000

Hello Paul! Your inputs are impressive! As a neophyte blogger, it’s great to know that I can combine 3 WordPress sites into 1. I’ll study your video so I can also do it… Thanks for the info.

Anne @ lifestyler treadmill´s last post was… Lifestyler Treadmill

By: Combining WordPress Blogs | Crazy Like That Blog

Combining WordPress Blogs | Crazy Like That Blog — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:38:18 +0000

[...] and see if someone else accomplished this brutal task successfully. Sure enough, there was “How to Combine Multiple WordPress Blogs Into One” by Paul Piotrowski. I listened to Paul’s video as I worked on a few things, like [...]

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 08:47:38 +0000

Woo, that’s a tough one because as you say the numeric permalinks will overlap and there is no way to control them. Also, in the end you want to get away from numeric permalinks anyways as they are bad for SEO.

What you could do is run through your Google Analytics account and just see if there are any “main” pages that get good SEO and try to forward just those pages. The rest just try to re-rank them. If you don’t have any pages that aren’t getting at least 1,000 visitors/month, then it’s probably not worth your time messing with them. Just put the content on the new site, and then work on optimizing your SEO. You might have a dip in traffic short term, but long term it will be better I think.

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:13:42 +0000

Paul, this is really useful, so thank you much. I've gotten myself into quite a little wordpress bind. I have a commercial site (www.essentialmomentsphotos.com), and then a blog attached to that domain name (www.essentialmomentsphotos.com/blog). The idea was that this would be personal work for clients to see. Several years later, I started a wordpress blog under a different domain of professional work (www.larrybrunt.com). It really bothers me that my person work is linked to my commercial site and my professional work is under my personal name domain. So I want to switch, but keep the permalinks. Unfortunately, the permalinks in both are simply numeric, so there are probably redundancies. Is there any hope for me? .-= Larry ´s last blog ..A Fieldtrip to Turnbull =-.

By: Paul Piotrowski

Paul Piotrowski — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:36:15 +0000

I think you’d have to mimic the same dir structure on the new blog…

ie.
blog1.com/alternative/blog/2010/01/01/blog-post

would have to point to

blog2.com/alternative/blog/2010/01/01/blog-post

I’m not 100% sure though, you’d have to test.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:04:35 +0000

Hi, Thanks for the post I really appreciate it and it was very good. My question is:

What if your blogs aren’t at the root of your url, i.e., instead of polymath.com/2010/01/01/blog-post you would have polymath.com/alternative/blog/2010/01/01/blog-post .

What would your .htaccess file look like then for different permalinks and same permalinks?

Thank you so much for the help,
Matt

By: Coz

Coz — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:46:59 +0000

great job with the video Paul. I have a couple of WordPress blogs and have been wondering about this