Technosailor - Latest Comments in WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Hjalmar Gislason — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:10:08 -0000

I have now twice used this plugin to migrate a blog from an old local Wordpress setup to a new one on Wordpress.com.

Great plugin, absolutely saves the day.

Note however that for non-english characters to import correctly, the file that is imported (on Wordpress.com) needs to have UTF-8 character encoding. In my case, both old blogs were in Latin-1.

Changing a file from one encoding to another is a matter of the operating system and software you have installed on your computer. I used TextWrangler (Mac):
1. Open file
2. If characters are all scrambled, choose File > Reopen Using Encoding > The encoding your file has (in my case Latin-1)
3. At the bottom of the screen click the name of the encoding and select "Unicode UTF-8" instead.
4. Safe the file

In Linux, there is a command line tool called 'convmv' and you can do something like:
convmv -f latin1 -t utf8 FILENAME

Hope this helps for those that have foregin language blogs.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

technosailor — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:53:11 -0000

Excellent

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Andrew Beaton — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:49:38 -0000

Just wanted to say thank you for still having this online!
After finally deciding to upgrade to 2.6.1 from 2.0.4 I thought I was screwed because of the new database structure, but your plugin made the job soo easy!

Thanks again and all the best.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

JAX — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:13:20 -0000

Hi.

I miss the category wise import/export in wordpress's build in importer/exporter. Is it possible to make this plugin work and allow category wise import/export in newer wordpress?

Thanks for this plugin.

Best Regards
JAX

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

sally — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:51:24 -0000

worked like a charm (from 1.5.2 w/ the category_count removed)

Thank you!

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

technosailor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:32:06 -0000

Actually, I can see where this might be a problem because, the multiple
versions of WordPress have introduced post_type='page'. I don't know how
soon I can release an update. I recommend you checkout WP 2.1 via SVN and do
the import into 2.1, then upgrading to 2.6.

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.1 .

I recommend doing a dry run of the whole process on a development blog to
make sure it works properly. In the meantime, I'll try to update this in
time for WP 2.7.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Worldtraveler — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:02:06 -0000

Can anybody please help me - I get crazy :(

I want to import my content from WP 2.0.9 to the latest WP 2.6 which is complete new Website/DB. I created a XML file with this great plugin and copyed the wordpress.php to the folder mentioned above to WP 2.6.

The import works for the posts, comments and categories. BUT it does not show my static pages which are importent for my website. I saw that the content is inside the DB, but it has the value "post_type" = "post". But shouldn't the sites have the value "page"?
If anyone can help me - that would be great - it's really frustrating.

Additional does anybody explain me, how I can export my TAGS from Ultimate Tag Warrior to the new Wordpress installation?
That's the next step I have to do after the "pages" works ...

THANKS FOR HELP!

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

technosailor — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:52:53 -0000

It doesn't export SQL. It exports WXR. It's also not needed if your blog is
WP 2.1 or better.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Mark — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:45:54 -0000

This is brilliant, except it only allows me to export an sql file and the Wordpress.com blog I want to import to only allows me to import an wxr file. Help??

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Greg — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:13:46 -0000

Thank you! Your export plugin saved me from a world of hurt.

I had an old Japanese blog using Wordpress ME 1.5.1.3. I was lazy and never updated it. Finally a problem bubbled up because of some new database version at my host. I had to do a couple of tweaks suggested by commenters above to get it working.

First I added the 1=1 trick to the if statement. This allowed the export option to appear because it wasn't there at first.

Second I had to delete category_count as Anne suggests above.

After that, the export went fine, and I was able to import everything perfectly into the latest Wordpress 2.6 (Japanese version). PHEW! THANKS AGAIN!

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Your Computer Genius — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:31:18 -0000

I didn't know that 1.5.2 blogs still existed any more. But, lo and behold, a client came to me with one!

I used the method in #333 (actually tried it before I read that) but also I had to reformulate the xml stream. I just changed it to 'text' instead of 'text/xml' because (and maybe it's just safari -- others could be more forgiving) my browser didn't appreciate the format!

But then it worked.

Thanks! Cheers!

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Aaron Brazell — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:24:12 -0000

Of course not, Joanne. The post says it's for WordPress 2.0 and lower and that WordPress 2.1 and higher (this includes WordPress 2.5) has it built in.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Joanne — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:22:52 -0000

Is this plugin compatible with wordpress 2.5? I uploaded the plugin, activated, copied the wordpress.php file to wp-admin/import - but I can't see how to export. I'm trying how to figure out how to export all posts from a single category. Thanks.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Angel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:29:25 -0000

Using your plugin, can I select the articles which I want to export import ?

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

UP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:22:55 -0000

Correction to that last post - I tried it and it doesn't work. Apparently it's not supported for 2.3.3 versions etc. I was trying to use this plugin to migrate from 2.3.3 to 2.2.3

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

UP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:19:08 -0000

To use for 2.0+ versions you need to disable these 2 lines at the start of the code:

// if ( ( '2.0' == substr( get_bloginfo('version'), 0, 3 ) ) || ( '1.5' == substr( get_bloginfo('version'), 0, 3 ) ) )
// {

And this line at the second last line of the code:

// }

just before the PHP end tag

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

UP — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:09:50 -0000

2. Upload wordpress.php to wp-admin/import/

Needs to be

2. Rename wp-admin/import/wordpress.php to wordpress.old
3. Upload wordpress.php to wp-admin/import/

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

associate — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:57:23 -0000

Does this plugin allow to import only a few posts or do you have to import/ export all your posts?

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

felix — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:50:30 -0000

If you get "The uploaded file could not be moved to..." error, the solution is to set the permissions on the 'wp-content' folder to '777' using an FTP client.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

radyo — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:31:02 -0000

thx for this tips here i test it on my test wp site

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

jocuri — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00:26 -0000

Thanks for this useful plugin.

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Evan — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:13:53 -0000

Thanks for this plugin! Very useful, great work!

Evan

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Esther — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:20:54 -0000

I wanted say \"thanks\" because this plugin allowed me to migrate a blog from WP 2.0.2 to a newer WPMU installation.

The only thing that I\'m having trouble with is my blogroll. Have you ever seen a plugin that can export the WP 2.0.2 blogroll to OPML?

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Daniel Black — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:34:58 -0000

Thank you very much for this plugin. Works quite nicely with WP 2.5 (importing from 2.0.2).

Re: WordPress-to-WordPress Import

Jeff — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:01:08 -0000

Ok, scratch that....I edited the file locally, not on the server, and only through the edit plugin screen did it work...but now I also can't see the categories to export...