Vox Importer
Thinking of moving your blog from Vox.com to WordPress.com? You are not alone.
We’ve noticed that several people are dissatisfied with the service and want to move their blog elsewhere. A lot of people that we’ve heard from say they didn’t realize that there is no way to export from Vox and are looking for a solution.
Vox users have at least one option now: create a free blog here at WordPress.com, then import your Vox blog. (And never be locked in again — we make your data as free as possible.)
After logging into your WordPress.com Dashboard, click on Tools -> Import.
Click on the Vox importer.
Type in your Vox host name, user name, and password and click the Submit button.
The importer will first validate your user name and password. After starting the importer, you can sit back and watch the status counters tick away.
You can also safely leave the importer page or close your browser. The importer will keep running.
Currently, the importer can import posts, tags, comments, and image attachments.
We will send you an email when the import is finished. Easy peasy!
Update: You can now apply a password to all posts that will be imported from Vox.
- January 27, 2010
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I’ve heard that some bloggers were dissatisfied with Vox also. I’ll be sure to spread the news about this. Thanks!
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SO nice. If only this feature had been available about a year ago when I was manually importing blog posts from Vox 🙂
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I have friends using Vox and yes, they too are dissatisfied. Don’t know why but shame on vox.
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I have a friend that uses that site, she never said it was any issue there- its nice to know WP is very accommodating to users from other places , way to go!
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Vox or not, WordPress IS the place to be. Anyone who is anyone is on WP.
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Holy crap, you have no idea how happy this makes me! 🙂
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Wow, I am impressed that we can do that …
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WordPress to the rescue. I’m sure many voxers are going to be pleased now. 😛
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Once upon a time, I was going to get a blog on Vox. Fortunately I didn’t!
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Nice !
This tool can import or export feed too?
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Nice and cool, even though I don’t have a Vox account.
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Vox is FULL of SPAM
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WordPress is just so accommodating! =D
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Hi Brian! Vox Importer: Yes! I don’t want to stay there, because I write poetry and romance books. Can you help me?
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Welcome to the family, guys!
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I’ll be sure to let my friends know – this definitely makes things so much more convenient!
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Just started here, but I’m glad I chose to go with WordPress. So far I like it a lot! Thanks for making my intro into blogging a positive one!
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I guess I’m sort of a noob. What’s Vox?
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Vox is a blogging service offered by Six Apart. If you have an account there, you can now import your content to WordPress.com!
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I moved onto your platform after getting tired of the hassles of hosting it myself and putting up with hackers. (who so graciously crashed a blog that I had been writing for 5 years and because of strange circumstances, this time was not able to restore).
I think there would be only one other reason that people move off this platform that I can think of, having done both self-hosting and hosted by you.
The inability to embed videos besides Youtube makes it kind of a pain (not a total loss but still would like to be able to to do that).
This, of course, comes from the inability to run scripts. I think the only other reason is that we cannot choose our own themes that we’ve either purchased or designed ourselves.
I understand that hosting it on your servers comes with some limitations, but I am a paid subscriber and would love to be able to do these things with something like a premium subscription.
Right now, I have the ad-free choice.
Just an idea. Have a free service that doesn’t allow the other stuff. Have a premium that is just like hosting it yourself but without the headaches. And have some nice plug-ins with it, to boot.
Thanks a lot for making my life a LOT easier.
Lynne
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We provide a number of video embed solutions beyond YouTube — including our very own player, available with the VideoPress upgrade!
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To think I almost went there and at the last moment came here. Glad I did.:) And not just because Vox obviously sucks!
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Congratulations on another great feature and welcome to all Vox users!
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I left Vox about 2 seconds after I found WordPress.com. Don’t even think I can remember my username/password there, but no worries.
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Keep giving us great tools! Thanks wordpress!
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I am glad I picked wordpress (after couple days thinking about blogger.com). I am happy here with you guys.
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Are the privacy settings kept intact? I don’t want any private posts suddenly becoming public.
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@lightandstorm, Yes, any posts you had on Vox that were marked as private will be private on WordPress.com.
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excellent feature. And there i think this will be used , because i have found WordPress better than Vox in many situations
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You guys protect everybody memorabilia. Like a year ago, when people in yahoo! 360 are wander and you help them to keep their life times happiness / sadness.
Seems like you are guardian angel!
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How about http://www.blogg.passagen.se? Lots of people who wants to move theirs blogs to.
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cool! too bad I don’t have a VOX to import 😀
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VOX SUX
(couldn’t resist, even though I’ve never even read of vox blog.)
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LOL! Only big LUZERS have Passagen blogs. =)
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Never used VOX but extremely happy with WordPress services.
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thank you so much, you guys are the best !!!
you actually care about frustrated vox users more than six apart !
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keep the announcements coming WordPress … you guys ROCK!
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oh yeah friends.I have been on wordpress for a while.hahaha.not so long as you might guess.
It’s awesome,great,safe and well in short there is no place like our home(word)press!
SO JOIN US!CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE!
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i will likely always have a vox and a wordpress this sounds like some neat stuff to click on
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Interesting thing to know. I didn’t know much about importing my blog. I will keep this in mind about importing different blogs.
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Cool. WP is home, but it is good to know how open WP is.
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it’s easy to import
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Direct war against vox!! Pretty brave wordpress 🙂
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Since you want to make our data as free as possible: How do you export your blog FROM WordPress? Just curious.
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As we like to say, it’s your content; you can do with it whatever you like. Check out our Support doc on exporting for the how to: https://wordpress.com/support/export/
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I never know what vox is, but i’m sure gonna spread the news…
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I forgot I even had a Vox when I found out about WordPress.
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Ok, I could seriously CRY right now. I have been bugging Vox for over a year to make an export. Not so I could leave, but so I could print my blog in book form. But I finally ditched them on January 1 cuz I’d just had it! But WOOHOO, now I can import that over and be a two WordPress Blog home! 🙂
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I tried vox for one week! It is bad!
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This post brought tears to my eyes. At last my old Vox posts are really mine again. I was leaving that account open for just such a day as this. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you. Or as the Count would say, 10-Q, 10-Q, 10-Q!
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First: I don’t know much english so sorry for the mystake I’gomma make
I cannot find a way to import blog from Splinder
Is there any?
Are you thinking to do something to help us too?
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@senzacredercitroppo, I can’t make any promises, but I’ll research it.
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More help from WordPress…fantastic!
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great news… probably i will start to import my vox blog here. thanks!
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Vox is a good service, but wordpress is just awesome. I get addicted to my dashboard like I get addicted to my Facebook account! 😛
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Great! What’s Vox? (just kidding:))
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Nice job wordpress devs. Thanks!
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Also do something to import from blogger.
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We actually offer that service already! Please see our Support doc on imports for more details.
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awesome. i’ve been wondering what to do about my old “archive” on Vox that wouldn’t involve me sitting down and manually backing the whole two or three years I was there up on a hard drive somewhere. thanks, WP.
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god job. nice one. wordpress is awesome
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Good job WordPress! This is good news for everyone.
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OK… I can see this as a solution for people who wish to have *public* blogs, but a lot of Vox users (like me) prefer to limit content.
Vox has a lot of things that you don’t…. including adjustable privacy controls for every item that’s either posted by a Vox user/uploaded by them/linked to or embedded by them.
I don’t see anything comparable on this platform.
No hard feelings – I think this service is great for those who wish to blog! But the social networking aspects of Vox aren’t here, or perhaps I should say that they’re here in a fairly rudimentary form. Your service wasn’t built for that.
So what might you be able to do in order to make moving from Vox a bit more attractive?
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WOO! Hahaha, thanks, team. This made my morning.
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@e2tc for me its not about the features. Yeah, Vox is more of a “social” platform with more fine-grained privacy controls. (As a result it’s also a lot harder to understand and learn how to use.) The point of WordPress’ Vox import is simple: it exists. And by existing, it frees one’s Vox data. Vox, I learned much to my chagrin – and far too late into my time with that service – traps one’s data in its system as a result of its lack of export capability. That’s just plain bad, no matter the variety or quality of features the service offers. So, yeah, Vox has a great feature set, but you give up a heck of a lot of personal freedom to use it.
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I worked for Six Apart (the people who make Vox) for a long time, so I’m not entirely unbiased on this topic, but I thought I’d give it a try.
Without a choice to create a new blog from the importer, I actually imported all of my friends, family, and neighborhood-only (protected) posts into and over top of a blog I’d used to coordinate efforts for a friend’s funeral. *wince*
Because of the nature of Vox and the importance of friends-and-family only posts, it’d be a better import experience if there was the option to create a new blog at the start, and if that blog was set to not be searchable/public. Just my two cents. 🙂
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@ginevra, Sorry to hear that happened.
I’ll make some changes so that it’s more clear as to which blog you are importing into.
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I too have a vox account, been with them for three years, and whilst ive imported my blog here and do find many items that I really really like about WordPress, I cannot myself free myself completely from Vox. Basically their social neighbourhood system is wonderful and my neighbourhood I have built up over the years prevents me from cutting ties with Vox completely. If wordpress had more of a community feel id move lock stock and barrel in a flash.
Still think the import feature is brilliant though. thanks!
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@autumnchilde, worst case, now you have a backup of your Vox blog!
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Great tool, thanks a lot guys! Cheers!
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I didn’t know anything about Vox until a blogger named Joanna Bracket marten (spelling?) plagiarized a long post of mine from WordPress without naming me or the original site — or, of course, asking if it was OK. So now I know Vox, only from that one unpleasant experience, and that behavior makes me fume. At least ask!
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I’m a huge Vox fan but the non-export issue has been a big frustration for me for years. THANK YOU for this!!! I’m trying this now… it’s frozen on 10 posts so I’m not hopeful it’s going to work for me tonight… but the fact that this option is available is so fantastic 🙂 THANK YOU!!!
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As usual …. WordPress rules. Keep up the amazing work guys, and thanks.
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I’m just getting started here, i’m gonna try to start my blog as of now!
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As one of the first handful of people on Vox (I used to work for Six Apart) have nearly 4 years of posts, media and comments to import. I hope this works! Thanks for providing the service.
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I’ve been so frustrated not being able to back up my blog. I love the Vox community but the trapped feeling is never a good thing. Thank you so much for finally doing this!
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Looks like Vox is dead. How can they survive a bombshell like this? All’s fair in love, war and blogging, though…
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Thanks !
I just finished importing from my Vox page.
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Thanks! I never used Vox, but i have heard of it. I hear it sucks, glad I went with WP! BlogSpot sucks too.
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Very cool, good program, written for our needs.
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Wow! WP really DOES listen to us. Love you guys!!!
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Can you import from other sites?
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@12dogsblog: yes you can — see https://wordpress.com/support/import/ for more info.
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very useful
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This is wonderful! I am a VOX implant to WordPress, mainly because of their lack of guest commenting. I had a friend that somehow configured a way to import my posts into WP. It did not transfer all my VOX items, but it did transfer many. Some were cut to abbreviated versions upon import. So, do you have any idea if/how this would work for me, being that a portion of my old VOX posts cam over but not all? Would it double import old posts?
http://thevfiles.wordpress.com/
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Most likely it would duplicate the posts if you ran the importer now.
Our Vox importer keeps track of what it has imported. It wouldn’t be able to differentiate the posts you imported manually vs. posts that you created in WordPress.
If you have not created any new content since your import, I can dump your blog’s content and re-import.
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You’re about four months too late for me. I had to copy and paste from Vox. 😦 But thank you, for jailbreaking my fellow refugees!
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Well for me, I think WordPress is one of the best companies that one can think of on the internet. Vox will have no option than to leave it up to the expectations of the public.
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good for those who’re looking to migrate into wordpress. so many of my readers ask me about this. thanks for the info.
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My only gripe with WordPress.com is there just isn’t enough themes to choose from. Some are too wide, others too narrow. I just wish that you guys would consider allowing us to use others templates like Blogger does. There are loads and loads to choose from on there!
Apart from that WordPress is great.
TG
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Another great idea, thanks wordpress!!
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Vox was the blog software I looked at before going to wordpress…
This is our very first blog, and surely there is nothing out there better than wordpress.
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