I have for months been wanting to merge two of my blogs but knowing how much work it really is to merge two databases that are totally unknown in stucture I never really got to getting it done.
Anyway today i finally decided that I just had to do it. Merge two of my blogs that really did not need to be separate into one single blog. So I did some quick google search and found various ways of doing this. One of the big suprises for me was how simple it really was when you knew how to…
Here is an example. Lets say I want to merge blog1.example.com and blog2.example.com into one single blog called blog1.example.com (the first example blog)
Ok here we go.
Step 1:
First thing first. Backup everything first. You can do this easily through cPanel or similar hosting panels. The methods vary from host to host. If you need further assistance on this specifically you should ask your hosting provider.
Step 2:
Go to (in this case). blog2.example.com. The blog we want to merge with the first one. Login to the Dashboard of wordpress, click Tools on the left side navigation menu and then Export. Download/Save the file to your computer and continue to step 3.
How to Export wordpressd blog
Step 3:
Go to (in this example) blog1.example.com, login to the dash board and again go to Tools, and then Import and select the WordPress format. For me this was located in the bottom of the choices avilabale.
Thats it! Visit your blog, and verify. You might want to go through the categories etc as they are imported as well if you had categories with the same name on both blogs then it creates duplicates. At least it did for me. However that was quickly resolved through the Dashboard.