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Super duper stuff.. irreplaceable.
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I used this to export all media XML from one site into a newer version of the site. Worked Beautifully, saving me weeks of work!
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I had to import all of my posts from my old blog to a new one. Was dreading the thought of having to import all of the images manually after noticing using WordPress Importer only made the attachment point to the old URL.
Found this plugin and followed the instructions in PhiLHo’s comment above and it worked perfectly.
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We asked ourselves lot of questions about how to use it, but it is actually very simple. But it is better to be explicit about the procedure, though…
We installed the plugin on the WordPress site to export.
We exported the articles via WordPress (Tools > Export > WordPress).
Then we exported the media via the plugin (Tools > Attachment Export or Export item in the plugin list). We need to rename the exported XML file as it will have the same name than the previous one. You must keep both.
Then, in the target site, just import (Tools > Import > WordPress) the file with the articles, then, with the same command, the file with the media.
After the first import, you can see the articles with the images, but they point to the old site (ie. href is https://your.old.site/wp-content/uploads/some/date/name.jpg for example).
After the second import, they will point to the new site, to the imported files.
Notes:
– Images are fetched from the old site, so it must be online. See the forum (Support) for alternatives (FTP).
– PHP / WordPress doesn’t like long operations, so the import might “fail”, because it takes time to import all these files. But it has actually done part of the work. Import the media XML file again, it will skip over the already imported files (with a message) and continue where it stopped.
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Seriously I borked a script and lost all media in the new site. This worked great to get all images back into the media library.
Thank you.
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thanks
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I can export xml file, but I can’t import the attachment so it’s usless for me
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works as described!
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Perfect, saved me a lot of trouble
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Works described, but I did hit the timeout issue. Rather than fiddling with PHP/Server settings I just split the XML file up. More specifically I saw where the import had left off and I just deleted those items and retried the import.
Perhaps you can add a “batch” parameter where the user could split the imports into batches of 25, 50, 75, 100 files. From my experiences with a vanilla install I think 50 would be a sensible default. Then again this may be dependent upon a myriad of factors…
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How I do it:
1. Install & activate ‘WP Attachment Export’ plugin in old WP site.
2. In old WP site, run export, and download the .xml.
3. Copy entire ‘uploads’ folder from old WP installation to the new one.
4. From new WP Dashboard, run Tools-> Import -> WordPress, and upload the .xml file.
Note: I ran them in localhost.
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Very helpful and right on time.
I needed to export all the meta data, alt tags etc…worked like a charm.
Much appreciated!
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Plugin works great. Thanks!
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This is great and very useful!
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Thanks a lot for very important plugin
I export media form wp 3.9.2 and import it in wp 4.0.1 easily !
Rating: 5 stars
I was trying to move a “Media Library” for around 2,000 attachments, it led to a big wxr file, around 25 MiB, and as I could import it, the media library always timed out. This made a smaller file (~ 3MiB, which gzipped were around 300 KiB) and thanks to that, I could do it with two tries.
I hope the author keep updating this ??
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works like charm, even featured images reappeared
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This plugin does not work. It produces blank page after “deactivation”.
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