Importing Posts – attachment images don't attach?

  • I have had this problem for a long time (dating back to early 2.9 wordpress versions) and it still happens now – if I import my posts via xml file, check the box for “download images & attachments” – the attachments never attach themselves to the post. If there is a link for the image in the post, wordpress will obviously display the image (as it’s uploaded to my server in the same location) – but when I use themes that use featured images or auto grab images they do not get attached to the post.

    Is there a workaround to solve this without manually going into each post and uploading the images individually? It’s not a big deal for small sites, but the larger ones can really be time consuming!

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  • Thread Starter mchelles

    (@mchelles)

    To update this issue – I’ve noticed that on the sites I’ve had issues with this on, the links are being overwritten with numbers for some reason.

    for example say this is your image link you’ve inserted into the post:
    wp-content/uploads/2010/10/image.jpg

    After importing for some reason, it is listing the links with image11.jpg or image22.jpg. There is no image for this permalink, so it shows the broken image/alt text. If I change the links to the original permalink the images display fine of course, but it’s still not “attached” to the post.

    Anyways, Still no solution other than manually updating the links and experimenting with the various attachment-image plugins out there…but thought I’d add this at least anyways in case someone should happen to experience the same thing in the future.

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