{
  "id": 15892499,
  "title": "Inside a Jimdo Creator site: what an export has to read",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/inside-a-jimdo-creator-site-what-an-export-has-to-read",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-21T13:14:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/decamp/inside-a-jimdo-creator-site-what-an-export-has-to-read-3p3c"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Jimdo does not provide options for creating backups of your website. If you wish to relocate your content elsewhere, the only copy available is the published site. One example of a Jimdo Creator blog is a German-language news blog that ran from 2010 to 2013. A Creator site typically contains 1,615 URLs, with 1,202 of them being blog posts. These posts can be identified by their date in the path. There are also 413 pages, many of which are archive or category pages. An export of a post from December 2012 includes various modules such as j-header, j-text, j-textWithImage, j-hr, j-spacing, j-facebook, and others. The export process requires careful attention to module types and image handling. Every image is named image.jpg, and there are 30 image URLs loaded per post. Two images are from the template, while the remaining 28 end in image.jpg or image.gif. To avoid issues, it is recommended to replace the transf/… segment with transf/none to obtain the file as uploaded, and to save each image with a unique name to prevent overwriting. Additionally, PDFs can be found under /app/download/ and should be saved from those links.",
  "summary": "Jimdo is plain about it: \"At Jimdo, there is also no option for creating a backup of your website yourself.\" ( Jimdo help ). No blog export, no XML file, no ZIP. If you want your content somewhere else, the published site is the only copy you can read. So we read one: a public Jimdo Creator blog, a German-language news blog with posts from 2010 to 2013. Here's what a Creator site looks like from…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}