Exporting a WP Site without WP Access?

  • Hi there–

    I think this is the right place to post this question. If more appropriate for another forum, let me know and I’ll move it.

    Ok, I have a client who bought an account on a “marketing platform.” The company uses WP for their “site builder” and doesn’t provide much value other than that; in effect, they’re taking advantage of folks who don’t know better. My client wishes to migrate, but this company will not provide access to FTP or the native WP export functions.

    But, this is all WP–the URLs, structure, etc of the site are standard and as expected. Does anyone know if there’s a way crawl and pull the site into an XML file (or something importable) without access to the backend tools? It’d save a ton of copy and paste time.

    Thank you in advance!

    Best,
    Jeff

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata). Reason: moved from developing to everything else
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  • I assume you can’t install plugins. (if you could, there are a lot to do this)

    There is a program called WebHTTrack that will copy the HTML of a site onto your computer. This is especially good for the images.

    There are tools all over that will parse HTML and generate a feed, although if it’s WP, it already has feeds of posts and comments.

    Thread Starter jmstovall2

    (@jmstovall2)

    Hey Joy, thanks very much for your response. Yes, you’re correct, we don’t have access to install plugins (or access to FTP for that matter).

    I used a similar program on Mac called Sitesucker to pull the site down. That works well to have a backup of everything, but of course, doesn’t tackle the goal of being able to import the content with an XML file. That’d be the real timesaver.

    But, I may be hoping for something that doesn’t actually exist. Thank you for the suggestion!

    Shoeb

    (@lovemarshall)

    I was in a similar situation with a site we’re currently developing for our client. There were about 100 posts and the access to export tool was denied by the host (a real estate based company which provides a multisite based solution).

    I used an RSS feed plugin to fetch the posts and it got me all the categories as well. There was an issue though. I could only fetch 15 posts and the most recent ones. I made it through by disabling the 15 most recent posts once they were imported and keep doing the process till all the posts were imported.

    The plugin I used to grab the posts via rss feed: WPeMatico RSS Feed Fetcher

    If you’re trying to find the RSS feed of a WordPress website, all you need to do is add /feed/ to the end of the website’s URL.

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