SEOPress migrate from YOAST doesn’t fully copy meta

  • Resolved mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)


    1 year, 6 months ago

    Migrate only copies meta for a few posts. Not custom posts, not pages, nothing else. It’s not reliable.

    Even for normal posts, I have 50% of posts copied and 50% lost.

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  • Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    Hi,

    are you sure you had for singular post entered some custom SEO metadata in Yoast?

    Because, from post type list, we only display custom ones into the SEO columns.

    Global settings defined in SEO, Titles and metas, will be applied on frontend as a fallback automatically.

    I guess this is explanation.

    Thread Starter mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)

    I can see side by side, yoast has items, yours doesn’t. Other people told me to be wary of this too. It’s not new issue.

    Maybe you crashed halfway migrating? How do I check what/why? NO pages copied at all. Of course I have no time manually open each to copy from yoast over to yours.

    I have mysql access to my host. Can run SQL there if you need

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by mayy3321.
    Thread Starter mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)

    I don’t know what Global settings to use, I can’t think of what I want same for all. I have info in yoast 200+ posts

    View post on imgur.com

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by mayy3321.
    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    Would it be possible to send a link (OneDrive or equivalent) to download the SQL of your site please?

    Thx

    Thread Starter mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)

    Sure how do I PM to you?

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    Send us an email to contact[at]seopress[dot]org please.

    Thx

    Thread Starter mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)

    sent now

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    SQL Dump received, we are investigating.

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    We have successfully migrated Yoast metadata to SEOPress one’s by using our importer (SEO, Tools, Plugins, Yoast, Migrate) and your SQL dump.

    Now from the post type list, we can easily compare the 2 meta title columns. We can see a lot of titles and meta description migrated. Some entries are empty because there is not any custom meta title defined, so the global title template will be applied.

    Thread Starter mayy3321

    (@mayy3321)

    I’ve tested again on a fresh clone site.

    Copies 90% of posts, 0% pages.

    Sent you email with screenshots.

    Clearly crashed/died while doing it, and stopped.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by mayy3321.
    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    Still no issue on our local setup with your SQL dump.

    Can you enable WP Debug first:

    https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/wp_debug-enable-error-logging-in-wordpress/

    Then run the migration from SEO, Tools, Plugins please?

    Do you see any error in the debug.log file?

    Plugin Author Benjamin Denis

    (@rainbowgeek)

    After investigation, the problem was cause by a custom plugin installed on the site.

    Conclusion: There is no issue with our import tool ??

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