[Plugin: podPress] Transferring audio files

  • Hello support. I am trying to revamp my current site. I set up a new wordpress site for it, I am using 3.2.1 with both. I use podpress to upload my media files (audio).

    I use the export tool, and import the file to my new site. All of my old posts load, all categories, everything is there with the exception of all the audio files that should be attached to the posts.

    How can i transfer my hundreds of audio files to my new wordpress site? (The site is dedicated to a podcast)

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  • Download the files via FTP from your old site and upload them via FTP to your new site. Make sure to replicate the directory/folder structure so it remains the same on the new site.

    Thread Starter paul_c

    (@paul_c)

    Podpress uses the Link to the location of the audio file. Where the file itself lives will not help here. I assumed that within the import/export that the file URL would remain saved within PodPress and the audio files would still in turn be transferred and attached to the posts itself.

    Does this help clear things up?

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    I edited your subject line and added a tag to try to get the attention of the Podpress plug-in developer.

    Hi Paul,

    have you inserted always the full URL of a media file in the podPress box below the editor?
    Or have you used the option “Absolute path of the media files directory” and selected the files via the list of files?

    Regards,
    Tim

    Thread Starter paul_c

    (@paul_c)

    I always copy and paste the full URL of the media file into the podpress box below the editor. Thank you zoonini for the help.

    I always copy and paste the full URL of the media file …

    That is good and the attachments should also be visible in the new blog.
    But there is maybe a problem with the Import plugin. I have created also a new blog to reproduce the situation. I used the Export and Import tools of WP (Import plugin version 0.5) to copy the content from an existing blog to the new one. The result is that the wp_postmeta entries of podPress (with the meta_keys _podPressMedia and _podPressPostSpecific) have no values after the import procedure. The .xml file does contain the values but somehow they get lost during the import.
    I guess that is what has happened also in your case.

    To correct that export and import the wp_postmeta table or maybe only the podPress entries via your database interface. (In my case it is phpMyAdmin and it worked. The posts in my new blog contain now the podPress attachments.)

    Please, look into the wp_postmeta table of the new blog and search for the podpress entries. Do they exist and are their values empty?
    Have you used the WordPress Importer plugin? Which version? v0.5?

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