Pages missing after import

  • Well, I thought I had successfully transferred my WordPress content from one website to another, but then I realized that quite a bit was missing–namely, all of my portfolios, and my customized pages. They’re in the xml file that I exported from the old site, but they never showed up on the new site. How do I start troubleshooting this issue?

    (My media library is intact on the new site, but I don’t know whether that’s because the import worked, or because I had already FTP’d all those files to the new site [mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/07] before I found out about the WP Export and Import tools.)

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  • Are you trying to move an entire website or just trying to move some content from one site to another different site?

    Thread Starter pwinter

    (@pwinter)

    Hi, HVWD.

    I used a tool provided by my web hosting company to install WP on Site B. I then launched the WP admin screen on that site and installed my desired theme. Now I’m trying to get the pages and portfolios I created on Site A onto Site B and into that theme. I saw that on Site A, my media library was stored in my directory structure, but the pages and portfolios were apparently off on some database on the hosting company’s servers.

    That is how WordPress works. It stores all the “content” in a database file. Are you trying to duplicate Site A to Site B or is Site B a completely different web site that you want to import some content from Site A?

    Thread Starter pwinter

    (@pwinter)

    Hi, Jay. Thanks for your reply. I’m mostly trying to duplicate Site A onto Site B, although Site B already has some HTML pages that I need to keep.

    Someone suggested that I try just the Portolios option in WP Export and Import, and that did the trick. I don’t know why my portfolios didn’t get imported when I used All Content for export and import. I’ll now do the same with Pages.

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