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How to Migrate Blog Articles Without Losing Them
Blog articles survive a migration intact when five things move with them: the body text, every image, publish dates, categories, and URLs. The key is inventorying all five before migration starts, not after.
Start with an inventory
Before migrating, you need an accurate count of how many articles exist and exactly which images, categories, and tags are attached to each one. In most cases, checking the article list alone isn't enough — attached media has to be verified separately, or gaps only surface later.
Handling images and media
WordPress's media library is managed separately from article content, which is why it's common to migrate the articles themselves while forgetting the images. It's worth confirming where both the original and any compressed versions actually live.
Keeping URLs intact
Search engines and social shares point at the old URLs. Keeping article URLs unchanged — or setting up 301 redirects when they do change — preserves the ranking value those pages already built up.
Category and tag structure
Category and tag structure is how readers find related articles. When that structure breaks during migration, on-site engagement tends to drop with it.
The cost of putting this off
A migration that moves "almost everything" — forgetting a few image links, losing publish dates — is the hardest kind of problem to catch, and the most tedious to repair afterward.
Recommended next step
Build a single checklist covering articles, images, categories, and URLs before migration begins. The free diagnostic checks the current article count and attached media as part of that.
Start by finding out what's still valuable on your current site.
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