Question

If I had two blogs in WordPress, can I move (selected) posts between them?

EDIT: I'm talking hosted blogs on the WordPress site btw.

Answer 1

Simply go into editing mode: Copy + Paste = Done!

Easiest workaround to be honest, though it doesn't support batch moving :-\

If you want to transfer more posts, this might do the trick:

Usually when you transfer your blog you backup and export your MySQL database because it stores the data of all your posts, comments etc but what if you want to export the data of a particular author only?

This type of situation arises when an author plans to leave a multi authored blog (in order to start a new blog independently) and wants his share of posts. We can easily export the posts, comments, categories and custom fields data of that author using the Export feature of Wordpress which is often overlooked.

To export the posts of a particular author go to your Wordpress Admin Panel and navigate to Manage > Export. There you can choose the author and all posts, comments, categories etc of that author will be exported to your PC in XML format.

Now to Import this data to a new blog just follow the steps:

• Log into that blog as an administrator.

• Go to Manage > Import in the blog's admin.

• Choose "WordPress" from the list of importers.

• Upload this file using the form provided on that page.
• You will first be asked to map the authors in this export file to users on the blog. For each author, you may choose to map an existing user on the blog or to create a new user.
• WordPress will then import each of the posts, comments, and categories contained in this file onto your blog.

This method can also be used to backup your blog without messing with the database.

Thanks jtbandes for getting the figures ;-)

Answer 2

You can export the content from one, modify the XML to contain just the things you want, then import it into the other.