Lost Categories in Import of WordPress.com

  • Resolved enkerli

    (@enkerli)


    14 years ago

    Repeatable and rather tricky. Potentially requiring database fiddling..

    Working with WordPress 3.0.1 Multisite (created through either cPanel 11 or a manual install from www.remarpro.com, there doesn’t seem to be a difference). The network works fine.

    I export the WXR from WordPress.com and import that file in a subdomain site on the network (blog.example.com). When the upload is done, the main content shows correctly but a few things don’t work: categories, tags, links. These were imported, but they don’t show up in association with the posts or in their own backend menus.

    I’ve noticed a few posts which talk about fixing this through the database, but they’re not specifically about multisite and I’m not that experienced with phpMyAdmin.
    One solution I’ve seen talks about adding a post with all categories and then run some SQL query to get the tags back. A problem I have is that, though some categories do show up in the post-editing interface

    Did someone else have a similar experience?

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  • I just exported my WordPress.com blog (www.delgadoarts.wordpress.com) and imported to self hosted www.remarpro.com site (www.delgadoarts.com) and in the process, I had a weird issue with categories that I easily solved so I thought i would post for anyone who might run in to this exact situation.

    After importing, I could view the categories in the DASHBOARD > POSTS > CATEGORIES section. But, when I went to add the CATEGORIES option to the widget bar, it found 0 categories. I tried a couple of fancy category plug-ins, but nothing located my existing categories. I noticed in the Category review page, it listed 0 posts for each of the categories. But, if I looked at the Quickview of each post under POSTS > ALL POSTS, I could see that the posts were all assigned correctly. So, after some experimenting.

    I found you can uncheck all the categories under Quickview of any one of the posts (be sure to note which ones were actually selected for that post so you can correct this later). Hit SAVE.

    Then check all the categories in the Quickview in that same post and hit SAVE.

    For some reason, this relinks the categories and gets the Category list to recognize them again.

    If you have the category widget in your sidebar, you should be able to view all your categories again. Now, you’ll want to go back and return your post back to its correct categories.

    So glad it was an easy fix and I hope I save someone else some headaches, too!

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