Questions before purchasing / upgrading to new version of easyblog
By Zad Imam on Sunday, 30 March 2014
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Hello - I am in the middle of working on a complete upgrade from a site using Easyblog version 2.0.4561 with Joomla 1.5.26 to the latest version of Joomla.

What I would like to know is if it is possible to export and import the blog settings / posts from the existing site to the new version of a site using Joomla 3.2.x. The new version of the site will be on a completely separate database, with a revamp of the new version of Joomla and site.

I plan on purchasing and installing the new version of Easyblog on the new site.

Thanks.
Hello Zad,

Yes, it is possible to export/import blogs to the new site. Migrating blogs is actually quite simple. I have here a short guide to do this
Ideally, it's best that you create an export dump through phpmyadmin and export the tables over. Here's the general guideline that you could use.

1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. Make a sql dump for all the tables that has the prefix of #__easyblog_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses the same prefix , then you can skip this part. However, if you are using a different database prefix, you'll need to edit the .sql file that you've just downloaded, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.
5. Open your PHPMyAdmin and this time, open up your new site's database.
6. You should see an import link at the top. Click on that, and click on browse. Select the .sql file and click the run import button.
7. Install the latest EasyBlog on your new site

Please replace "#__" with your own database prefix


Hope this helps.
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