# Export Discourse from Wordpress only to import on native Linux Discourse installation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844 "2019-04-12T10:41:19Z")
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### Author:  [@karanlive](https://meta.discourse.org/u/karanlive)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844/1 "2019-04-12T10:41:19Z")
I want to export all the discourse data - categories, topics, tags, content to import it on a native installation on an AWS Linux server. Is this possible or can Wordpress Installation of Discourse can only be imported into another WP installation?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844/2 "2019-04-12T10:58:48Z")
What do you have right now?
I don’t know what you might mean by a WordPress installation of Discourse.
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### Author:  [@karanlive](https://meta.discourse.org/u/karanlive)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 11:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844/3 "2019-04-12T11:02:09Z")
I have Wordpress installed on a local server with Discourse as a plugin that has data in it - topics, tags, categories and all. I want to export all of this Discourse data to a new installation of Discourse on an AWS ec2 instance. I’ll install Discourse on Linux but I want to have all of this data that I already have in Wordpress’s Discourse plugin.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 11:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-discourse-from-wordpress-only-to-import-on-native-linux-discourse-installation/114844/4 "2019-04-12T11:07:08Z")
The wordpress plugin only links a WordPress site with a Discourse site. Discourse users, topics and so on are not in WordPress. Do you have a Discourse server somewhere? It sounds like you might must.
Moving discourse from one server I another requires setting up the new server, backing up the old one and restoring that data in the new server.