Exporting your blog.stcloudstate.edu WordPress site

Introduction

If you intend to move your site to another WordPress instance you'll want to complete both parts. Even if you're not going to move to a different WordPress instance, you may want to back up everything as an archive.
Note: exporting your site may require two steps if you’ve also uploaded any media ( images, documents). No media is included in the initial export – see the section on media export.

Instructions

1. Sign in: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/wp-login.php
2. Navigate to your site’s dashboard:
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3. Choose Tools | Export:
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4. Ensure ‘All content’ is selected and scroll to the bottom to choose ‘Download Export File’:
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5. Save the download file in a convenient location for future use.
6. Repeat for each site you have.

If you also wish to export your media library:

1. From your site’s dashboard ( step 2 above ), choose Plugins:
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2. Search or scroll to find ‘Bulk Media Downloader’:
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3. Select ‘Activate’.
4. Navigate to the Media library:
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5. Select the list view icon:
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   2. It’s the first icon in the toolbar.
6. Select the ‘select all’ checkbox at the top left of the media list:***
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7. Use the bulk actions dropdown to choose ‘download items’:
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8. Select ‘Apply’:
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9. Save the download .zip file in a convenient location for future use.
10. Repeat for each page of that site’s media.
11. Repeat for each site as needed.

***Notes on step 6: if your site contains many items, you may need to perform steps 6 through 9 multiple times to obtain all media items. You can minimize this by using the ‘screen options’ tool at the top right of the screen to choose a page size larger than 20 items.

Screen options button:

Pagination change:

  choose a larger number and select ‘apply’ to see more items per page.